Backup Singers

Backup Singers by Browning, Sommer. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780991429806.

Poetry. Browning follows up her sold out debut, EITHER WAY IM CELEBRATING, with an even rawer and starker, and again darkly humorous navigation of friendship, marriage, and motherhood. The result is a more overtly political assessment of the absurd deficit between what were confronted with and what were equipped with to deal with those confrontations: "Its a girl, / and the wires she needs // open her hands / before theyre fists." Browning combats this deficit with relentless anaphora and repetition, reducing seemingly impossible relationships to their most basic element—a love that begets an unconditional loyalty: "Im here! I didnt run!"