Lauren Camp
Biographic Data
| ID | 1638890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Camp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Camp |
| SIGNATURE | CAMP L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Deux poèmes récents
sont reproduites ici avec la permission de l'auteure, Lauren Camp
Soigner
Reclaiming Perspective, and
Reclaiming Perspective, and: "U.S. Tariff & Import of Japanese Velveteen", and: Resilience Lauren Camp (bio) Reclaiming Perspective Confession: the week after you saw him, he walkedthrough the city's headlightsin a suit. A stranger returned him through pinpricks of sunrise. And again.And again—with calls each timeto report his aimless shadow. He could end anywhere and it's that absolutethat scared me. You want to believe I'm shame-sewn, faulty. Y…
Parallels
Ilya KaminskyDeaf Republic
Books in Review where she worked for a time as secretary to Alfonso Reyes, who encouraged her to publish. In the 1950s and ’60s, few Mexican women were acknowledged as literary talents: Rosario Castellanos and Elena Garro were the exceptions. Many of Dávila’s stories have female protagonists who are driven to insanity by their inability to escape oppressive social situations. In “The Houseguest,” the story that lends its title to this collection,…
Two Poems
48 WLT NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2015 courtesy of the national museum of women in the arts , washington , d . c . gift of wallace and wilhelmina holladay ; photograph by lee stalsworth cover feature art poetry Two Poems by Lauren Camp Alma’s Stripes for Alma Thomas Some days light is the color of all my losses. As the hours roll back in reflected pigments, I paint to perceive impossible beauty, a pattern that yearns for more of itself: the startle of s…
Two Poems
48 WLT NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2015 courtesy of the national museum of women in the arts , washington , d . c . gift of wallace and wilhelmina holladay ; photograph by lee stalsworth cover feature art poetry Two Poems by Lauren Camp Alma’s Stripes for Alma Thomas Some days light is the color of all my losses. As the hours roll back in reflected pigments, I paint to perceive impossible beauty, a pattern that yearns for more of itself: the startle of s…
Crossing the Liminal
cover feature Art Poetry Since the earliest days of civilization, art and poetry have shared a symbiotic relationship. In the following section, thirteen poets take their inspiration from post-1950 visual art. Featuring WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 35 With additional online exclusives by MARJORIE AGOSÍN & ANDRÉS SÁNCHEZ ROBAYNA Curated & introduced by LAUREN CAMP CIRCE MAIA 38 HEDY HABRA 40 RAVI SHANKAR 42 LOLA CRÉÏS 45 RITA MALIKONYTE MOCKUS 46 LAUR…
Lighten; Anyone Else; Woman's Body with Birds
Feminist Studies 40, no. 2. © 2014 by Lauren Camp 353 Lighten How to describe her body: soft, begging, jammed into drawers. When she finally reached the conclusion of her eating, she dropped all the pounds she’d allowed. No longer willing to violate herself, she signaled starvation, the insistent strategy of appearance. Her limbs articulated, suspended, and she held her slight torso in the raw bony winter, wearing only the smallest wardrobe of se…
Two Poems
Two Poems
16 World Literature Today Letter to Baghdad Even if my father never speaks a word of it, I will know he brought a candle, a cough, and the occupied side of his heart. I will know the trees held him, that they rose above rooflines, and where they met, he climbed and saw roads paved only with praises. The sun he carried across oceans turned copper at his window. I saw it too, on the gray edge of my childhood, and I was marked when each day awoke. H…
What You Might Hear
aboveLaurenCamp, TheSwirlsIHear,2004, threadworkon layeredfabrics,38" x 72" (adapted fromthree photos by FrancisWolff© Mosaic Images and one photo by Herman Leonard). ^^^^^H ^^H WhatYou Might Hear When 1realized I couldmake mistakes . . . /decided I ivasreally ontosomething. - Omette Coleman Youcantellbytherumble oftallincantations that hehassecured soundinto a modelofmingling symbols andmasterful spells. Listen for theriddle inverted inrhythm, a…
What's in the Notes
that writer make it possible for us to appreciate what we might otherwise hear? To complicate the chance of adequately capturing sound, try asking that writer to express jazz one of the most sophisticated musical forms, a construction that demands a certain openness and perhaps even experience with the music. Some writers are able to turn jazz inside out, making us want to listen more closely. Each writer sees different seams, different ways the …
Thelonious Monk on a Subway
JAZZ POETRY Thelonious Monk on a Subway I metMonk ona subway, coming through thetunnel. Hiswordsfell outbetween thick beardhairs, then lumbered toward me,pausedandsighed. Whenthetrain jerked, hislong fingers reached out, touched mypaleshoulder: heworea rust brown coat. Intervals rode thetrack with us:E-flat, D, C andD. Harmonious fifths, andmismatched chords. He explained that themelodies weredots hishandswanted toconnect. I didn'tunderstand sohe…
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What You Might Hear
aboveLaurenCamp, TheSwirlsIHear,2004, threadworkon layeredfabrics,38" x 72" (adapted fromthree photos by FrancisWolff© Mosaic Images and one photo by Herman Leonard). ^^^^^H ^^H WhatYou Might Hear When 1realized I couldmake mistakes . . . /decided I ivasreally ontosomething. - Omette Coleman Youcantellbytherumble oftallincantations that hehassecured soundinto a modelofmingling symbols andmasterful spells. Listen for theriddle inverted inrhythm, a…
What's in the Notes
that writer make it possible for us to appreciate what we might otherwise hear? To complicate the chance of adequately capturing sound, try asking that writer to express jazz one of the most sophisticated musical forms, a construction that demands a certain openness and perhaps even experience with the music. Some writers are able to turn jazz inside out, making us want to listen more closely. Each writer sees different seams, different ways the …
Thelonious Monk on a Subway
JAZZ POETRY Thelonious Monk on a Subway I metMonk ona subway, coming through thetunnel. Hiswordsfell outbetween thick beardhairs, then lumbered toward me,pausedandsighed. Whenthetrain jerked, hislong fingers reached out, touched mypaleshoulder: heworea rust brown coat. Intervals rode thetrack with us:E-flat, D, C andD. Harmonious fifths, andmismatched chords. He explained that themelodies weredots hishandswanted toconnect. I didn'tunderstand sohe…
Two Poems
Two Poems
16 World Literature Today Letter to Baghdad Even if my father never speaks a word of it, I will know he brought a candle, a cough, and the occupied side of his heart. I will know the trees held him, that they rose above rooflines, and where they met, he climbed and saw roads paved only with praises. The sun he carried across oceans turned copper at his window. I saw it too, on the gray edge of my childhood, and I was marked when each day awoke. H…
Lighten; Anyone Else; Woman's Body with Birds
Feminist Studies 40, no. 2. © 2014 by Lauren Camp 353 Lighten How to describe her body: soft, begging, jammed into drawers. When she finally reached the conclusion of her eating, she dropped all the pounds she’d allowed. No longer willing to violate herself, she signaled starvation, the insistent strategy of appearance. Her limbs articulated, suspended, and she held her slight torso in the raw bony winter, wearing only the smallest wardrobe of se…
Two Poems
48 WLT NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2015 courtesy of the national museum of women in the arts , washington , d . c . gift of wallace and wilhelmina holladay ; photograph by lee stalsworth cover feature art poetry Two Poems by Lauren Camp Alma’s Stripes for Alma Thomas Some days light is the color of all my losses. As the hours roll back in reflected pigments, I paint to perceive impossible beauty, a pattern that yearns for more of itself: the startle of s…
Two Poems
48 WLT NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2015 courtesy of the national museum of women in the arts , washington , d . c . gift of wallace and wilhelmina holladay ; photograph by lee stalsworth cover feature art poetry Two Poems by Lauren Camp Alma’s Stripes for Alma Thomas Some days light is the color of all my losses. As the hours roll back in reflected pigments, I paint to perceive impossible beauty, a pattern that yearns for more of itself: the startle of s…
Crossing the Liminal
cover feature Art Poetry Since the earliest days of civilization, art and poetry have shared a symbiotic relationship. In the following section, thirteen poets take their inspiration from post-1950 visual art. Featuring WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 35 With additional online exclusives by MARJORIE AGOSÍN & ANDRÉS SÁNCHEZ ROBAYNA Curated & introduced by LAUREN CAMP CIRCE MAIA 38 HEDY HABRA 40 RAVI SHANKAR 42 LOLA CRÉÏS 45 RITA MALIKONYTE MOCKUS 46 LAUR…
Ilya KaminskyDeaf Republic
Books in Review where she worked for a time as secretary to Alfonso Reyes, who encouraged her to publish. In the 1950s and ’60s, few Mexican women were acknowledged as literary talents: Rosario Castellanos and Elena Garro were the exceptions. Many of Dávila’s stories have female protagonists who are driven to insanity by their inability to escape oppressive social situations. In “The Houseguest,” the story that lends its title to this collection,…
Reclaiming Perspective, and
Reclaiming Perspective, and: "U.S. Tariff & Import of Japanese Velveteen", and: Resilience Lauren Camp (bio) Reclaiming Perspective Confession: the week after you saw him, he walkedthrough the city's headlightsin a suit. A stranger returned him through pinpricks of sunrise. And again.And again—with calls each timeto report his aimless shadow. He could end anywhere and it's that absolutethat scared me. You want to believe I'm shame-sewn, faulty. Y…
Parallels
Soigner
Deux poèmes récents
sont reproduites ici avec la permission de l'auteure, Lauren Camp
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