{"product_id":"9781934200650","title":"Mellow Actions","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrandon Downing, whose \u003ci\u003eLake Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e beguilingly combined painstaking full-color collage with painstaking found poetry and painstaking visual bravado, returns with this collection of new poems, his fourth. You'll be laughing about flotsam, you'll be crying about jetsam. There is nothing but supernaturally canny vernacular to hold on to in these poems, but there is excessive cultural material to dream about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWait for me, Raymond Carver!\u003cbr\u003eYou piece of shoot!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe girls are too solo, not herd things,\u003cbr\u003eDirty butt, jelly-jar weed-heads,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eTiny chiggers leaving huge welts,\u003cbr\u003eThat is the world waits in the woods.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMe, I can't buy enough Giclee prints\u003cbr\u003eTo cover the guile accreting on my walls!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat was that all about btw,\u003cbr\u003eThose donut bushes and Sprite\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eLadders running up over the defensive\u003cbr\u003eWalls of our new youth clinic? WTF?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eBrandon Downing\u003c\/b\u003e is an artist and writer from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in New York City. His collections include \u003ci\u003eThe Shirt Weapon\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eDark Brandon\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eLake Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fence Magazine, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033778307312,"sku":"9781934200650","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934200650_p0.jpg?v=1763641982","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934200650","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}