Intro for Brandon Downing, Powell's Books, 3/14/10

Here's the intro I gave for Brandon Downing at his Powell's reading in Portland on Sunday.

Brandon Downing is the author of The Shirt Weapon ("You are a blue rat caught/In a black dog's jaws") and Dark Brandon ("Through a discount centre entryway. I come/Into piano spotlight"). He's also the bricoleur veejay genius splicer behind "Dark Brandon/Eternal Classics," a DVD which paradoxically convinced cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling "to pay attention to a poetry movement" again.

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