One Summer Evening at the Falls One Summer Evening at the Falls

One Summer Evening at the Falls

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Publisher Description

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 find familiar characters, lovers, and strangers. In the title poem, he takes us to the falls, where people and passions mix amid the sticky hanging mists:

                        That charge of summer nights, that edge, like everyone’s checking

                        everyone out. Lingering a moment in the crowd

                        gathered to watch the rush and crash and let the mist

                        drift upward to our faces, I’m here: the future feels

                        open again. Even alone tonight—still: open.

Campion’s poems introduce us to a range of people, all of whom are rendered with distinctiveness and intimacy. Their voices proliferate through the collection, with lyric folding into speech, autobiography becoming dramatic monologue, and casual storytelling taking on a ritualistic intensity. The poems in One Summer Evening at the Falls show how each character and each moment can be worthy of love and that this love both undoes us and makes us who we are. In narrative and lyric, in formal verse and free, Campion brings contemporary playfulness together with his classical talent to create this far-reaching and tender collection.

 

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
2 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
88
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Chicago Press
SIZE
17.4
MB

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