Thu, Sep 17
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Lauren Camp, Took House & John Macker, Atlas of Wolves
Took House, from Lauren Camp is a disquieting book about intimate relationships and what is seen and hidden. And John Macker's Atlas of Wolves are poems of truth without need for explication, woven with imagery and metaphor.
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Sep 17, 2020, 6:00 PM
Zoom
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Took House is a disquieting book about intimate relationships and what is seen and hidden. In vulnerable poems of obsession, Camp places motivation deep in the background, following instead a chain reaction between pain and pleasure. Took House navigates a landscape of bone and ash, wine and circumstance. Boundaries shift between reality and allegory. The unknown appears and repeats, eerily echoing need. Blame, power and disorder hover, unsettling what we know of love.
About Lauren Camp
Took House is Lauren Camp’s fifth book of poetry. One Hundred Hungers, Camp’s third book, won the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press, Tupelo’s most prestigious poetry prize. Previous books have been shortlisted for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award, the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize, and the New Mexico- Arizona Book Award. Lauren is a true citizen of the poetry community, giving widely. She teaches young students to…