A Review of Rick Campbell’s Sometimes the Light

By Stephen Corey

Having to admit to myself that I’m not the world’s most perspicacious reader, I was about halfway through my second reading of Sometimes the Light before suddenly answering my own persisting question about Rick Campbell’s choice of title for this striking first essay collection (after seven poetry books): “Oh,” sez I to myself, “and sometimes the dark, dummy.”

And now I have to admit to you, my reader, that the term through in my first sentence is a bit misleading ...