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Paul Newman Blues
a mini chapbook by Pris Campbell
published by Full of Crow Press
Cover by Coleen Shin
Pris Campbell never disappoints, and when her own always complex and sensuous
poetic speaker imaginatively unites with an equally complex and richly
associative Paul Newman, the resulting poems are every bit as titillating as
one would hope.
--Scott Owens, Editor of Wild Goose Poetry
Review, Author of The Fractured World
Reading Pris Campbell’s new chapbook “Paul Newman
Blues” is like taking in one of those PBS retrospectives, only the snippets
of scenes have annotations that tell you what the actors are thinking.
Actually, they tell you what you’re thinking, which is even more fun.
What makes this little collection enduring is the proximity of
identification in our admiration and Campbell's deft use of plot twists and
juxtapositions which assign multiple meanings and interpretations in various
plot contexts.
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Ed Nudelman, author of If It Looks Like An Elephant
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