Hesitant Commitments by Pris Campbell - The Lummox Press, POB 5301, San Pedro, CA 90733 / 31pps / $5.00

Poems of that one love we never forget. Memorable for all that it wasn’t and surrounded by what it was. Brevity leaves us wanton, fantastical, enhancing the memories that take us to Greek Isles, Paris, London, Rome..
It’s a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young dogma.. “When you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.” .. Or, at least act like More...

This was such an intimate read, a memoir of sorts where the reader is led through the poet's circuitous journey through a years-long love affair. Some of the poems are sensual and filled with lust and touch. All of them are forthright. At times I felt like I was reading the journal of a well-traveled adventurer, a woman considering the grand passion that once consumed her even as she trekked through Greece or New Zealand, married a sailor, or dallied with a blues singer from Milan, who intrigued More...

One of my favorite chapbooks of 2008.

My thoughts regarding this collection and others being published in the upcoming issue of O&S.