Took House

"Lauren Camp’s newest collection Took House is a multitude. Hawks, owls, coyotes, ravens mix with Georgia O’Keefe, Donald Judd, and Annie Leibovitz. Minimal yet soaring. Cemented in time and form yet fluid. There are love poems, avant-garde experiments, prose chunks, free verse, and brick-solid couplets: “Little differences the lexicon / if the sense were a mouth of another.” Doubtlessly, Camp is an artisan working with culmination. Each poem stands sound and true...Observer, witness, examiner, practitioner, and seer—Lauren Camp has produced a collection to be pondered, studied, enjoyed, and shared. Took House builds an intellectual appetite with enigmatic grace."--David Morgan O'Connor