Thu, Mar 12
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Lauren Camp, Is Is Enough
"Is Is Enough is a tenacious elegy-in-the-making, a book of being standing against nothingness." —Edward Hirsch
Date, Time & Location
Mar 12, 2026, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
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Order Is Is Enough (publishes 2/15, $21.95, paperback) online from CWB here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
Is Is Enough begins in heritage and harmony then breaks apart into the strange world and tautly stretched emotions that accompany dementia. The collection flickers through and locates in distorted realities, loss, and gentling. By haunting the past, the author reweaves and reorients against a continual vanishing. Ordinary situations begin to seem like joy in reverse, a treatise on the honesty of the present.
"Lauren Camp has the perfect touch. Her precise, exquisitely tuned poems lean us into scenes and understandings that feel both riveting and enduring...her poems deepen the world." —Naomi Shihab Nye
About the Poet
Lauren Camp is the author of eight previous collections, including In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024), which grew out of her experience as…