"Other people" by Peter Campion (Univ of Chicago Press, 2005)

Poems from AGNI, PN Review (5 of them), Poetry, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly, etc.

This is another book that's beyond my understanding. I can't work out what the poet's aims are. There's quite a lot of rhyme - e.g.

when you called to tell how, after 2:00, as you searched that club you'd played to find your case, a pane of glass propped out of view sliced you, made my imagination race

Note that retrospectively it's clear that "2:00" is pronounced "two", and that there doesn't seem to be much of a syllabic/stress pattern.

Other reviews

• Robert Pinsky (Closeness of the uncanny to the quotidian is Peter Campion’s kind of material. ... )