“Perhaps the finest collection of the year…”
—Columbia Daily Tribune
An Eye in Each Square
River River Books, 2023
This collection is part social critique, part imaginative biography of enigmatic painter Agnes Martin, and part treatise on the multiplicities of the natural world.
“The paintings and mind of artist Agnes Martin echo through the very structure of these poems. In fact, Martin is the book’s structure. She is a form like a sonnet is a form. ‘I notice Agnes sits / and frames the room and the room where she sits is built reliable / around her,’ Camp writes, illuminating the fact that ekphrasis is no contrivance. It is a cosmology. These poems are ‘slow and persuasive.’ They move like the sea, mirror the stillness of the sky, mapping and refining a deep interiority.”
— Diane Seuss
“This gathering of textures, the edges of what is speakable, the emotional collage in words, is an impossibility achieved.”
“The artist Agnes Martin slips in and out of Lauren Camp’s An Eye in Each Square like a wraith, an invisible companion.”
Purchase from the publisher or buy a signed copy from Lauren.
Poems
Interviews
- Of Poetry Podcast Conversation with Han VanderHart
- Conversation with Katie Doyle, New Mexico Museum of Art