Material

by Isabel Sobral Campos

In Material, by Isabel Sobral Campos, the language of the body, of landscape, of the interior of hospitals, of undersea creatures, of the digital world, are collaged as a poem cycle whose words repel and attract, ordering the chaos of a body’s cancer. Boog City says of the chapbook, “Her words permeate our being; dense, textured, auratic; the syllables limitless as to where they can drift, fall, seed, and harm.”

Genres: Poetry

8 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Isabel Sobral Campos’s new book is How to Make Words of Rubble (Blue Figure Press).

Other works include Your Person Doesn’t Belong to You (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), Material (No, Dear and Small Anchor Press), You Will Be Made of Stone (dancing girl press), Autobiographical Ecology (Above/Ground Press), and Sobriety Crystal (The Magnificent Field).

Her poetry has appeared in the Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, in the anthologies BAX 2018: Best American Experimental Writing and Poetics for the More-Than-Human World, and elsewhere.

She is the co-founder of the Sputnik & Fizzle publishing series.