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Dixmont by Rick Campbell
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ISBN (paperback): 978-1-932870-17-6 About the Book Dixmont is more than a blip on the Doppler screen of American poetry; it measures the weather of our times. Against a background of wars past and present, Rick Campbell wages his own personal battles on several fronts. With an alchemist’s magic, he mixes his “artifacts of impermanence” — humor with history, intelligent design with the toss of a coin, the muse with the scalpel, his daughter’s swing set with his father’s troublesome legacy, finding his own “reference points” in the daily obligations of family life. Because life is literally at stake, somewhere beyond metaphor, Dixmont brings us all “home.”
– Judith Kitchen Rick Campbell’s new poems are blocks and chunks of daily life, scooped raw from the dirt we’re all made of, and made art by the magic of his wit. They are full of courage and grace, and yes, wonderful humor, too, as they take on the ugliness and beauty and mystery of our mortality. Homer is here, and Roberto Clemente, and the click beetle. Our madness is here, the vagaries of chance, cancer, wars, the love of wife and child and sport. What the poet himself says in “The War On Many Fronts” is true of his book as a whole: “These are words of healing.” – Robert Dana About the Author Rick Campbell is the author of The Traveler’s Companion, Setting The World In Order which won the Walt McDonald Prize, and Dixmont published by Autumn House Press. Campbell has won an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and two fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. He is the director of Anhinga Press and the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and he teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. He lives with his wife and daughter in Gadsden County, Florida. |
