One Summer Evening at the Falls

Peter Campion is the author of three previous collections of poetry and most recently of Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry. His poems have appeared in publications including Poetry, Slate, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, and New Republic, among others. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, he teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Minnesota.

• AcknowledgmentsOneOne Summer Evening at the FallsThe LingeringBud, the PhotographerCommutersShe Dreamed a Giant ScreenSaint Anthony FallsLe ChienAfter Ovid: The House of RumorTwoChorusIce CreamAfter Sappho: The DrillAfter HoraceIn Memory of Terry Adkins1.    His Shoes2.    BeesAfter Baudelaire: The CoverSitcom SetAfter Jin Eun Yung: Long Finger PoemThreeThe Street We Lived OnGreensleevesUncle1.    His Picture2.    The End of Your Sentence2B1989PacificOne Summer Evening at the Falls (II)Night HillCall

"The world is with us in Campion's bright new book, a phenomenal place where this poet's powers are not wasted, but up-gathered into complex aching memory, a place of the saturated sensational real where human agency is thwarted by desires blunted against time and temperament. It's where we live. Campion has the disabused but fired imagination to see it in a plausible scale, to find the balance and tone to pitch himself in relation to others who constantly adjust the frame. To traverse the distances, one must see them first; Campion looks where others miss or find too formidable to cross. There are many poets to love; this is one you can also trust."--Joshua Weiner, author of Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees? "In this collection, Campion conceives of a formula to create out of the 'less Romantic. More trained automatic' of day-to-day life in the US. The poems here reiterate Campion's exceptional sensitivity to sound, and his ability to listen and allow for the voices coming into his lines to become as integral to the poet's conception of the self as any voice from within. With this rare ability, Campion composes poetry that places the American scene outside of itself and opens it to the rest of the world like no other American poet."--Ahmad Almallah, author of Bitter English