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An Interesting Detail

Autor Kimberly Campanello
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2025
'An Interesting Detail is full of returns, 'the costumes and repetitions available' to the speaker - to any of us - in a new place; the forms, the situated patterns of being and doing we borrow from the past and resurrect here, for good or ill' FRAN LOCK

An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative poetic voice


The poems in An Interesting Detail confront our shared, layered past (both planetary and human) and its knotty relationship to the present, stretching from today to prehistory, in a voice that is knowing and yearning, sincere and sardonic, and at times defiant. Campanello's prose poems, brief lyric outbursts, and poetic sequences ludically navigate catastrophe and sweep us up in the minutiae of everyday life, which includes pain and illness, machinations of power and moments of suspended connection.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526680594
ISBN-10: 1526680599
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 124 x 196 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Poetry
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Every detail is interesting in Kimberly Campanello's An Interesting Detail, that's the irony . . . A thoroughly unexpected book, employing archival, archaeological and linguistically innovative concepts . . . in individual poems rooted in their own intimately attuned worlds
Campanello takes a quasi-archaeological approach to past and present in these grounded yet transportive poems. The Irish-American poet has a gift for drawing inventive, unexpected connections between objects and their meaning, be that historical or transitory, and the results will reward your time and re-reading
Fierce, breathless, seducing the ear by rhythmic propulsion and monosyllabic control, and all while teetering on the blurred boundary between short story and prose poem . . . She meditates on power, the environment, writing, and questions the supposedly redemptive power of chronic pain . . . The opening gambit reveals a poet disenchanted with - or perhaps no longer satisfied by - poems situated in the stratosphere, amid "church" or "cathedral bells" ringing, nor in the dark, indescribable mystery that is "beneath the sea". Campanello's poetics are startlingly inventive, even as she admits "books don't know what's inside their covers, or they don't care". This is a work to care about
One of the many joys of An Interesting Detail is how the poet takes us with her across spatial and temporal distances, acting as guide, confidante, record-keeper, and perhaps most strikingly, embodying a kind of monument herself. Campanello is a fiercely intelligent poet, a serious poet, but not an unplayful one. Across the book's engagements with poetic archaeology and historic constructions, she is clearly playing on the Latinate associations of her own name with bells and towers, while also drawing on a long (pre)history of the poet as seer, as truth-teller . . . This is Campanello's gift: to transport us into realms that dwell in the folds between history and imagination, to point at the purled details of their fabrication, and to ask What does this mean to you? To us?
Expansively intelligent, pained, persisting, spectacular, this collection rises out of the depths, from the "echoes and the afterthoughts", at the uncanny intersection of memory and history
What's interred is not resting. Campanello pulls at every detail to disarm, discern and dismantle pieties and imprecisions, encouraging us to dig deep into subtleties
These startling prose poems surprise us with something rich and strange, plunging us into a world that hovers somewhere between blog and myth
An extraordinary collection, in which the present is powerfully haunted by the past. The poems weave through circles and loops, echoes and repetitions, formally and thematically
Our relics are released from their sterile cases . . . Degeneration, preservation and the wonder of both are contained in these poems. A beating heart in perspex
An unsentimental personal archaeology, sifting the moraine of the everyday and wryly cataloguing both the trivial and the profound