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Erotic Distance: Poems (New Odyssey Series)

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This is a beautiful collection of poems. I read the entire collection in one sitting and came away with the feeling of having experienced a journey from cloistration and seclusion to the discovery of love and faith. Each poem on its own is moving and Campbell is a true wordsmith, always tiptoeing up to the line of excess but somehow managing to keep her poems from becoming precious,overly private, or too erudite. The poet deftly navigates a series of 'tyrannies' or obstacles, and does so cleverly. Read together, the poems constitute a spectacular whole, as the reader has also navigated the various traps that the tyrannies present and has emerged, along with the poet, on the other side. _Erotic Distance_ is a fresh look at the peregrinations of the self in its search for the redemptive power of love.