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From
the back cover:
"Shanna
Compton's Down Spooky is a little bit Texas and a whomping
dose of New York School. Ms. Compton has a great ear and a good eye
for the telling detail, and this gifted poet doesn't mince words. I
like that. I like these poems a lot. There is something quotable, something
memorable on every page of Down Spooky." --Tom
Beckett
"Shanna
Compton steps up to the plate as a new breed of adventure-seeking wordsmith.
Check in here for daring flares of language, jocular and dancing, with
a direct address to the populous of peoples and their props. Get refreshed,
and get Down Spooky." --Lisa Jarnot
"A
sound freak and a sight freak, Shanna Compton has 'hookymaking conviviality.'
Note the predilection for nutty dialogue: 'I believe her married name
was Smith-Corona'; 'We are fronded tickers'; and this satisfying nature
etude, from 'Mouth Made out of Trees' (and out of Stevens): 'the snow
your mouth a new environment mouth/inhalation rapid breathing environmental
plantsign.' What a racket. But this poet is also affectingly elegant
with the visuals: a cat is 'a shroud of a pet'; in an instant, 'the
Oreo dims the milk'--glimpses that haunt the reader." --Caroline
Knox
"'Lips
that have smiled are as limitless as leaves,' Shanna Compton writes
in her poem 'Mouth Made Out of Trees.' Her poems are 'limitless' in
this and other senses; her work radiates an exuberant joy in the life
of words. Down Spooky is a remarkable debut collection by a
poet of wit, whimsy, intelligence, and charm." --David
Lehman
"Down
Spooky is as enchanting as a blue lake on a hot summer day that
you never want to get out of once you’ve plunged in. The book
brims with liveliness, and love, and wit. Shanna Compton has an uncanny
gift of seizing moments and situations with sure aplomb, and even when
she is reveling in word play--in purely verbal speculation--her words
lead to insight. Readers can only be grateful for such beneficent interventions."
--Harry Mathews
"As
Shanna Compton writes, 'Hooray for the Differently Sane.' Down Spooky
is a marvel of deep play and deeper knowingness. Read it and take joy!"
--Susan Wheeler
Shanna
Compton is the author of Down Spooky (Winnow, 2005),
Scurrilous Toy (Dusie Kollektiv, 2007), Big Confetti
(with Shafer Hall, Half Empty/Half Full, 2004), and the editor of GAMERS:
Artists, Writers & Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels (Soft
Skull, 2004). Her poems and essays have appeared widely in magazines
such as No Tell Motel, MiPoesias, Verse, the tiny, McSweeney's,
Absent, Coconut, Spork, and Court Green, and in anthologies
including The Best American Poetry 2005, The Bedside Guide to No
Tell Motel, Bowery Women, Digerati, and Exchange Values Vol.
2. She lives in New Jersey. For more information, see shannacompton.com.
Sample poems, MP3s,
& a couple of interviews are posted over here.
Down
Spooky