Is Is Enough

Texas Review Press, 2026

Is Is Enough considers the tautly stretched emotions that accompany dementia. Poems locate in distorted realities and gentling. By haunting the past, the author reweaves and reorients against a continual vanishing. Ordinary situations begin to seem like joy in reverse, a treatise on the honesty of the present.

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“Lauren Camp’s new book is a stubborn testimonial to existence, to the sufficiency of life as it is in all its messy dailiness. Is Is Enough is a tenacious elegy-in-the making, a book of being standing against nothingness.”

— Edward Hirsch

“Lauren Camp has the perfect touch. Her precise, exquisitely tuned poems lean us into scenes and understandings that feel both riveting and enduring…her poems deepen the world.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

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