Memory—how we retrieve and replenish it—is at the heart of Nectarine, Chad Campbell's visionary second collection. Figures, cities, and landscapes from the author's life shift in and out of these dreamlike poems that explore the “unaccountable, uncountable” ways in which our past keeps speaking to us: through objects, through paintings, through colours, and through the spectre of places that map themselves over the places we live in. Subtle, unsettling, compressed, and full of incandescently beautiful language, Nectarine is about lost things, stranded moments, and traces preserved in time like “a glass of frozen nectarine halves / on a table made of ice.”
- ISBN10 1550655663
- ISBN13 9781550655667
- Publish Date 1 September 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Vehicule Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 80
- Language English