Lauren Camp is the author of five books, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press, 2020). Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Ecotone, DIAGRAM and other journals. Honors include the Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish and Arabic.

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Other poems on the web by Lauren Camp:
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"Goodbye to Aggressions and Generous Gestures"
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"Gin"
"Still Life with Extinctions"
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Three poems
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Lauren Camp's Website.

Lauren Camp According to Wikipedia.

Lauren Camp on Twitter.

About Took House:

"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