Material, by Isabel Sobral Campos
2015 (Sold out)
In Material, by Isabel Sobral Campos, the language of the body, of landscape, of the interior of hospitals, of undersea creatures, of the digital world, are collaged as a poem cycle whose words repel and attract, ordering the chaos of a body’s cancer. Boog City says of the chapbook, “Her words permeate our being; dense, textured, auratic; the syllables limitless as to where they can drift, fall, seed, and harm.”
*Includes code for a digital recording of the chapbook.*
excerpt posted at Medium
Recording available at PEN American Center and at PEN’s Soundcloud
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Isabel Sobral Campos holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. She recently left Brooklyn to teach literature at Montana Tech of the University of Montana. Her poems have appeared in Smoking Glue Gun, the gobbet, Gauss PDF, Bone Bouquet and Deluge, among others. Material is her first chapbook.
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