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Took House Paperback – August 1, 2020

by Lauren Camp (Author)
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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 unknown appears and repeats, eerily echoing need. Blame, power and disorder hover, unsettling what we know of love.
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    Tupelo Press
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    August 1, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    7 x 0.3 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1946482323
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1946482327
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Lauren Camp’s Took House is an astonishing, enchanted world of nature and cityscape, interior terrains, art-making and witnessing all at once. ‘That night the sky came up to my lips’, she writes, ‘It tasted of wind, and gave me something to miss.’ The collection is an exploration of nostalgia, how it manifests in literal and metaphorical borderlands, the way we are always transforming and undoing ourselves along with the worlds we inhabit: ‘Such endeavor, / all of these seasons’. Towards the end of the collection, she writes, ‘I returned empty, without.’, with the tenor of someone who understands emptiness is its own kind of abundance. A marvelous collection! --Hala Alyan

Took House is a book of appetites: for language, for understanding, for the body, for the natural world. ‘There is such ungodliness / in what the tongue will feed on,’ Lauren Camp writes, considering the fine line between appetite's bodily openness and the dissolution of the self, as she confronts the injurious effects of alcohol on a relationship. Camp's poems, often synesthetic, often ekphrastic, present ways of looking through art to our outer and inner selves: ‘What else should we look at but fugitive color, / the shape that s not empty?’ and later, ‘she must study the wall of her primitive self.’ Hers is a language you can taste in this dazzling collection: simultaneously rich and restrained. Lauren Camp is a singular, probing, precise poet, and I celebrate this book’s arrival. --Jenny Molberg

In Lauren Camp’s Took House we are enveloped in a poetry both precise and mysterious, intimate and sublime. Reading through these poems, I was reminded of the tenet that poetry is not like the interior life, but is the interior life, the thing itself made flesh via language: ‘Give me your flowered ear,’ Camp writes in one poem, and in another, ‘I will speak / of the seams of desire, the practice / and even the ceiling.’ Here is a poet articulating her human existence (the tentacles of love, inebriation, visual art) here is a particular heart and mind removing its shield in order to commune, to help us see the world again, more deeply and more strangely, and reader, I am grateful. --Allison Benis White

About the Author

Lauren Camp is the author of five books of poems, including TOOK HOUSE (2020) and ONE HUNDRED HUNGERS (2016). She received the Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award and the New Mexico- Arizona Book Award. She came to poetry while working as a visual artist, a career she has since left behind. Camp lives in New Mexico, where she teaches creative writing to people of all ages.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tupelo Press; First Edition (August 1, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 90 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1946482323
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1946482327
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.3 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Lauren Camp serves as New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024). A former Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park, Camp is a recipient of the Dorset Prize, finalist commendations for the Arab American Book Award and Adrienne Rich Award, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute. Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic.

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Alexandra
5.0 out of 5 stars An incredibly compelling book of poems!
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2020
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Lauren Camp's voice is unique. This is a book full of desire and wonder -- an incredibly compelling book of poems!
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JJ Amaworo Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful collection
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2021
I found this collection absolutely dazzling. The poems deal with love, pain, and transformation in ways that are unexpected and haunting. Camp's is a powerful voice that deserves a huge audience. Highly recommended.
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