Results for "Campion, Peter"

The poems in this collection capture the fantastic feeling of falling in love, all while keeping eyes on its lifecycles of crashing aftermaths, lingering regrets, guilt, and renewal. Peter Campion brings us to a series of scenes—on the damp patio, in the darkroom, and along the interstate—where we f... Read More about One Summer Evening at the Falls (Phoenix Poets)

In El Dorado, Peter Campion explores what it feels like to live in America right now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with translations of ancient poems, jump-cutting from traditional to invented forms, and turning his high-res lens on everything from box st... Read More about El Dorado (Phoenix Poets)

What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In this collection of essays, Peter Campion gathers ... Read More about Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry

What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In this collection of essays, Peter Campion gathers ... Read More about Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry

Big Avalanche Ravine Just the warning light on a blue crane. Just mountains. Just the mist that skimmed them both and bled to silver rain lashing the condominiums. But there it sank on me. This urge to carve a life from the long expanse. To hold some ground against the surge of sheer material. It wa... Read More about The Lions (Phoenix Poets)

Poem to FireFast transparency that explodes the fuel and airin the cylinder and shuts the intake valves and thrustsdown on the piston so the crankshaft spins and spinsyou cut through all material that blocks your wayso fast that driving now past rushes and billboardsthis pull to her could be your ow... Read More about Other People (Phoenix Poets)