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canned laughterdoes my laughingfor me

Somebody's doing something fot everybody everywhere, o.r.nr()t'r

specificaliy,lots of t..httology is great but it's Ylly putting history

out of whack. Or, not everything is out there for everyone to sec:

'I can't google-map my past,/where we lived is classified.'Ideol.rgV

surely ii a" impoitani utp..t of Brown's Poetry. This irony thirrg

though-and recalling the voice of Albiston previously-comes t(t

life in the lines:

going on onlinea small discussion(between 3 poets)about experimental Poetryand free verse that one Poet saYS

is reallyanecdotal \incerity'zarapped up in the unifed'I'

oh dear I think that must mean me,

with whom I am definitelY stuck,I havemy limitation, thoughnot always'sincere',and never 'unified'-only paranoid

Where better to take it out on irritating web discussions than in rt

poem! I agree, I think. It's interesting that in arL age where every

ifti"g is e,Ierywhere and you can say anything anywhere to peoplc

,rr1#h.r. instantly that ihis can somehow restrict the nuance ol'

what's being said. Perhaps, zooming back out to the universal oucc

again, this is precisely why poetry.is so important today, to corr

dIrrr. and conirast, inthat tension that Brown masters so well, syn

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tax and meaning, breath and seme, to the extent that language once

more-and those fine vapours of thought that weave in and out ofit-come more clearly into focus.When you catch Brown twilight-ing a remix age parunoiacally,it becomes more noticeable that onlysome theories are conspiracies. In other words Browris eye is oftenonline, but also directed towards the poet's stars (as a recent review

by Justin Clemens suggested). It's everywhere but not without itssituatedness. It's home, it's here and now, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, but there's something else more general in these

poems, a more universal address: 'we want/to see the world/as we

want it to be' ('More than a feuilletori), even if it's unclear as towho, exactly, is speaking. There are so many Poems to like in thisvolume, and so many that have aLready imprinted themselves some-where deeply preconscious. Home by Dark is a valuable additionfor readers new and old who are familiar with Brown's work and a

really brilliant stand-alone performance in itself. Encore! Encore!