flotsam and gomorrah: parlour tricks and other mysteries

By Bill Campana

Bill Campana once again ignores the line between the everyday and the absurd in flotsam and gomorrah: parlour tricks and other mysteries.

Driven by the wit, rhythm, and unpredictability that have defined Campana's work from the poetry-slam stage to the printed page, this collection finds poetry in the strange debris of ordinary life. Observations become detours, jokes become questions, and familiar ideas rarely end up where they began.

Campana's poems move freely between humor, surrealism, wordplay, cultural observation, and moments of unexpected reflection. His performance-poetry roots remain close to the surface, giving the collection a conversational energy even when the poems wander into stranger territory.

Irreverent, playful, and deliberately difficult to predict, flotsam and gomorrah is poetry for readers who enjoy language that refuses to behave itself.

For readers of contemporary American poetry, spoken word, performance poetry, humorous poetry, surreal verse, and unconventional short-form writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938190416
• ISBN13: 9781938190414
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Brick Cave Media
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"