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An Interesting Detail
- Author
- Kimberly Campanello
- Narrator
- Kimberly Campanello
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 24 April 2025
- Run Time
- 1 hour 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems
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'An Interesting Detail is full of returns, 'the costumes and repetitions available' to the speaker – to any of us – in a new place; the forms, the situated patterns of being and doing we borrow from the past and resurrect here, for good or ill' FRAN LOCK
An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative poetic voice
The poems in An Interesting Detail confront our shared, layered past (both planetary and human) and its knotty relationship to the present, stretching from today to prehistory, in a voice that is knowing and yearning, sincere and sardonic, and at times defiant. Campanello’s prose poems, brief lyric outbursts, and poetic sequences ludically navigate catastrophe and sweep us up in the minutiae of everyday life, which includes pain and illness, machinations of power and moments of suspended connection.
Critics Review
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Every detail is interesting in Kimberly Campanello’s An Interesting Detail, that’s the irony . . . A thoroughly unexpected book, employing archival, archaeological and linguistically innovative concepts . . . in individual poems rooted in their own intimately attuned worlds
POETRY SALZBURG REVIEW
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Campanello takes a quasi-archaeological approach to past and present in these grounded yet transportive poems. The Irish-American poet has a gift for drawing inventive, unexpected connections between objects and their meaning, be that historical or transitory, and the results will reward your time and re-reading
FINANCIAL TIMES, Best Summer Books 2025
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Fierce, breathless, seducing the ear by rhythmic propulsion and monosyllabic control, and all while teetering on the blurred boundary between short story and prose poem . . . She meditates on power, the environment, writing, and questions the supposedly redemptive power of chronic pain . . . The opening gambit reveals a poet disenchanted with – or perhaps no longer satisfied by – poems situated in the stratosphere, amid “church” or “cathedral bells” ringing, nor in the dark, indescribable mystery that is “beneath the sea”. Campanello’s poetics are startlingly inventive, even as she admits “books don’t know what’s inside their covers, or they don’t care”. This is a work to care about
GUARDIAN
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One of the many joys of An Interesting Detail is how the poet takes us with her across spatial and temporal distances, acting as guide, confidante, record-keeper, and perhaps most strikingly, embodying a kind of monument herself. Campanello is a fiercely intelligent poet, a serious poet, but not an unplayful one. Across the book's engagements with poetic archaeology and historic constructions, she is clearly playing on the Latinate associations of her own name with bells and towers, while also drawing on a long (pre)history of the poet as seer, as truth-teller . . . This is Campanello’s gift: to transport us into realms that dwell in the folds between history and imagination, to point at the purled details of their fabrication, and to ask What does this mean to you? To us?
POETRY IRELAND REVIEW
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Expansively intelligent, pained, persisting, spectacular, this collection rises out of the depths, from the “echoes and the afterthoughts”, at the uncanny intersection of memory and history
FRAN LOCK
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What’s interred is not resting. Campanello pulls at every detail to disarm, discern and dismantle pieties and imprecisions, encouraging us to dig deep into subtleties
SO MAYER
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These startling prose poems surprise us with something rich and strange, plunging us into a world that hovers somewhere between blog and myth
PHILIP TERRY
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An extraordinary collection, in which the present is powerfully haunted by the past. The poems weave through circles and loops, echoes and repetitions, formally and thematically
RACHEL BOWER
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Our relics are released from their sterile cases . . . Degeneration, preservation and the wonder of both are contained in these poems. A beating heart in perspex
NASSER HUSSAIN
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An unsentimental personal archaeology, sifting the moraine of the everyday and wryly cataloguing both the trivial and the profound
RICHARD SKELTON
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Details
- Author
- Kimberly Campanello
- Narrator
- Kimberly Campanello
- Duration
- 1 hour 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 April 2025
- ISBN
- 9781526690647
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents An Interesting Detail, written and read by Kimberly Campanello.'An Interesting Detail is full of returns, 'the costumes and repetitions available' to the speaker – to any of us – in a new place; the forms, the situated patterns of being and doing we borrow from the past and resurrect here, for good or ill' FRAN LOCKAn important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative poetic voiceThe poems in An Interesting Detail confront our shared, layered past (both planetary and human) and its knotty relationship to the present, stretching from today to prehistory, in a voice that is knowing and yearning, sincere and sardonic, and at times defiant. Campanello’s prose poems, brief lyric outbursts, and poetic sequences ludically navigate catastrophe and sweep us up in the minutiae of everyday life, which includes pain and illness, machinations of power and moments of suspended connection.
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