In Conversation

In Conversation pushes the boundaries of the poetry book, unless this is actuallya novel in five acts. Poems become footnotes and vice versa, or they are etched as palimpsests to reveal stories withered from time and memory, or they bleed across columns to create new meanings, or they are reversed, line for line, at exactly the midway point and "played back" until they take the form of screenplays, billboards, a shutter roll of film, and the embodiment of the body plus soul ... in all...
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In Conversation pushes the boundaries of the poetry book, unless this is actuallya novel in five acts. Poems become footnotes and vice versa, or they are etched as palimpsests to reveal stories withered from time and memory, or they bleed across columns to create new meanings, or they are reversed, line for line, at exactly the midway point and "played back" until they take the form of screenplays, billboards, a shutter roll of film, and the embodiment of the body plus soul ... in all of these endeavors, Campanioni declares: words are not meant to be static on the page.