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Book SynopsisBlending styles, voices, and settings, Campion's poems show how each character and each moment can be worthy of love and that this love both undoes us and makes us who we are.
Trade Review"The world is with us in Campion's bright new book, a phenomenal place where this poet's powers are not wasted, but up-gathered into complex aching memory, a place of the saturated sensational real where human agency is thwarted by desires blunted against time and temperament. It's where we live. Campion has the disabused but fired imagination to see it in a plausible scale, to find the balance and tone to pitch himself in relation to others who constantly adjust the frame. To traverse the distances, one must see them first; Campion looks where others miss or find too formidable to cross. There are many poets to love; this is one you can also trust."--Joshua Weiner, author of Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees? "In this collection, Campion conceives of a formula to create out of the 'less Romantic. More trained automatic' of day-to-day life in the US. The poems here reiterate Campion's exceptional sensitivity to sound, and his ability to listen and allow for the voices coming into his lines to become as integral to the poet's conception of the self as any voice from within. With this rare ability, Campion composes poetry that places the American scene outside of itself and opens it to the rest of the world like no other American poet."--Ahmad Almallah, author of Bitter English
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments One One Summer Evening at the Falls The Lingering Bud, the Photographer Commuters She Dreamed a Giant Screen Saint Anthony Falls Le Chien After Ovid: The House of Rumor Two Chorus Ice Cream After Sappho: The Drill After Horace In Memory of Terry Adkins 1. His Shoes 2. Bees After Baudelaire: The Cover Sitcom Set After Jin Eun Yung: Long Finger Poem Three The Street We Lived On Greensleeves Uncle 1. His Picture 2. The End of Your Sentence 2B 1989 Pacific One Summer Evening at the Falls (II) Night Hill Call
