Nectarine

Memory--how we retrieve and replenish it--is at the heart of Nectarine, ChadCampbell's visionary second collection. Figures, cities, and landscapes from theauthor's life shift in and out of these dreamlike poems that explore the"unaccountable, uncountable" ways in which our past keeps speaking to us: throughobjects, through paintings, through colours, and through the spectre of places thatmap themselves over the places we live in. Subtle, unsettling, compressed, and fullof incandescently beautiful language, Nectarine is about lost things, strandedmoments, and traces preserved in time like "a glass of frozen nectarine halves / on atable made of ice."