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Buck Downs
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Buck Downs is an American poet, publisher, and editor. Downs was born in James County, Mississippi to Jordon Downs and Fronia Gail Ulmer Downs on July 7, 1964. He graduated from Louisiana State University with an MA, where he studied with Andrei Codrescu. While studying at LSU, Downs acted as editor of the New Delta Review, which is a magazine that features original fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, reviews, interviews, and artwork of students in the MFA. Creative Writing program. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1988. Literary journals that have featured Downs' poetical writings include Puppyflowers, Brooklyn Rail, and Columbia Poetry Review. He is publisher of Buck Downs Books, as well as editor of the magazine Open 24 hours. In 2007, he read at The Union Square Poetry Series. Works *"great big/ baby/ furnace", fascicle *"from this is slo-care (jones county)", ixnay number one fall/winter 1998 *"worth", Aerial Magazine *A Draft of XXX New Personal Problems, *You Can’t Get Enough of What You Really Don’t Need. 2009 *Ladies love outlaws, Edge Books, 2006, ISBN 978-1-890311-22-3 *In Memory D. Thompson, Buck Downs, 2004 *Washington, Columbia Books Inc, 2002, ISBN 978-0-9715487-1-8 *Marijuana Soft Drink, Washington D.C.: Edge Books, 1999, ISBN 978-1-890311-02-5 *Selections from The sound of music, Elmwood, Connecticut: Abacus Issue 119, Potes & Poets Press, 1999 *Parts of the body, Pyramid Atlantic, 1993 *Full spoon, Joie d'Beavre, 1992 *Office products: poems, 1989-1990, Pyramid Atlantic, 1991 Anthologies *Signature series number one: Washington, Part 3, Pyramid Atlantic, 1997 CDs *Pontiac Fever, Narrow House Recordings, 2006 Reviews The idea of ‘document’ seems to have a promising fascination for the twenty-first century psyche. Buck Downs’ new book of poems, Marijuana Soft Drink, might be called a document. It doesn’t say things in a conventional sense. It isn’t narrative. It maps and gives verbal evidence of the up-and-down, complex psychological and ethical landscape of its times. 
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