Letter from Poetry Magazine
Originally Published: October 30, 2005Peter Campion responds
Peter Campion responds:
Thanks to David Poston for his eloquent and levelheaded response. I find little to disagree with in his comments. Despite our difference in emphasis, we seem to share a sense that getting “voice” into poems involves both finding and losing.
Peter Campion earned his BA from Dartmouth College and his MA from Boston University. His collections of poetry include Other People (2005), The Lions: Poems (2009), which won the Levis Reading Prize, and El Dorado (2013). He has also written monographs and catalog essays for the painters Joseph McNamara, Terry St. John, Mitchell Johnson, and Eric Aho. He regularly publishes literary and art criticism...