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A rich debut collection from a promising new poet -- selected by Campbell McGrath as a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series Open Competition
For more than twenty-five years, the National Poetry Series has sought out and discovered new voices, helping to launch the careers of such luminaries as the former poet laureate Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Stephen Dobyns, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.
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My review of CORRUPTION: POEMS:
In “Napoleon’s Boots and Dante’s Body,” the conquering general tastes victory in Italy: “There’s nothing like antiquity / to make you hungry for the treasures of a tomb. // Ah, what a tomb was Italy …. // all beautifully elided like layers of pastry in a papal cannoli.” And later, “This is so good I must eat the whole thing, said Napoleon.” Like many of those in Camille Norton’s award-winning collection, Corruption, this poem is both intensely literary and fully engrossed in the flesh. Her gift, it seems, is to take ekphrasis--familiar to fans of the eponymous Sacramento-based journal as poems that take a work of art as their point of departure--beyond the merely descriptive, into a merger of the personal and the historical. (