One Summer Evening at the Falls
88 pages
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5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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© 2021
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
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 Cover2. Bees
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
2B2. The End of Your Sentence
1989
Pacific
One Summer Evening at the Falls (II)
Night Hill
Call
Review Quotes
Joshua Weiner, author of Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees?
“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.”
Ahmad Almallah, author of Bitter English
“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.”
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