Worn Smooth between Devourings

by Lauren Camp

Overview

The poems in Worn Smooth between Devourings travel through fears of ecological devastation and national and global tragedy, and map routes away from despair. Worry remains in the background, even in landscapes that still hold time's beginning. Even in long love. "We are suspended in places / entire and different and home," Camp writes. These precise, sonically-driven poems investigate a confessed gaze for contentment with the conviction of quiet rebellion. Through repeating distance, multiplying birds and crisscrossing storylines, they offer a testament to land and lack, grief, faith, and endurance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630451028
Publisher:	NYQ Books
Publication date:	09/19/2023
Pages:	82
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

Lauren Camp is the Poet Laureate of New Mexico and author of five books, most recently TOOK HOUSE (Tupelo Press, 2020). Two new books-AN EYE IN EACH SQUARE (River River Books, 2023) and WORN SMOOTH BETWEEN DEVOURINGS (NYQ Books) -are forthcoming in 2023. Honors include a Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award and Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Witness, The Common, and Poet Lore, and her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic. Her work has received support from Black Earth Institute, Storyknife Writers Retreat, Denver Botanic Gardens, and the Taft-Nicholson Center. In 2018, she was a visiting scholar/poet at the Mayo Clinic, sharing poems of dementia with physicians and research scientists, and she was Astronomer in Residence at Grand Canyon National Park in 2022.