Tupelo Press • 2020
Took House is a disquieting book about intimate relationships and what is seen and hidden. In vulnerable poems of obsession, Camp places motivation deep in the background, following instead a chain reaction between pain and pleasure. Took House navigates a landscape of bone and ash, wine and circumstance. Boundaries shift between reality and allegory. The […]
River River Books • June 2023
Award-winning poet Lauren Camp’s sixth collection of poetry. With the gifts of a visual artist and poet’s attention, AN EYE IN EACH SQUARE confronts our era’s barbed and shifting networks of power and atrocities. Lauren Camp’s sixth collection of poetry offers social critique within an imaginative biography of enigmatic painter Agnes Martin and a treatise […]
NYQ Books • September 2023
The poems in WORN SMOOTH BETWEEN DEVOURINGS travel through fears of ecological devastation and national and global tragedy, and map routes away from despair. Worry remains in the background, even in landscapes that still hold time’s beginning. Even in long love. “We are suspended in places / entire and different and home,” Camp writes. These […]
In every generation of every family there is one person that is born carrying an unequal amount of the emotional and energetic burden of their lineage. In an intact culture, this person would be recognized for bearing a gift, a seed: the potential to become the healer of their family line. This potential would be […]
Renee’s latest book, When Kittens Take Over, is based on a true story. It’s a delightful and heartwarming tale about overcoming impatience. Jolinn wants something immediately. However, a series of events stop her from reaching her goal, and she experiences disappointment. Discover with Jolinn the value of appreciating every moment along the journey to achieving your goals.ased on […]
Queen Agatha, regal champion of the common people, is an adult fairy story with a new twist! In the mystical medieval land of Xana, Queen Julia is a typical aristocratic monarch. Her daughter, Princess Agatha, is the champion of the commoners. When the evil sorcerer Magi comes to Xana, he kills Queen Julia, takes the […]
