"'All objections to progress, ' writes Hans Blumenberg, 'could come down to the fact that it hasn't yet taken us far enough.' That's philosophy--and it's funny--but no one would ever level the same complaint at pain or laughter, this fine book's subjects and two phenomena that can take human beings great distances almost immediately. Absolutely modern--but never resolutely maudlin--Sommer Browning doesn't settle for making it new; rather, she lets it bleed and gets us there on time."--Graham Foust

Whether a traditional lyric, a section-length love poem about cage fighting, or a collage of prose and fragments meditating on a haunted and haunting domestic architecture, the poems in Sommer Browning's Either Way I'm Celebrating share the same DNA base pairs of humor and sentiment, skepticism and humanism; the source of their integrity is how Browning combines and recombines them. Complemented throughout by her sardonic comics, this collection stubbornly celebrates, if only our own absurdity.