Laws & Locks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781550654028)

A new poetry collection by a young and talented Canadian poet, Chad Campbell, finalist for the 2013 Malahat Long Poem Prize

Beginning with the arrival of the Campbell clan in Canada in 1827--"pale scot farmers fording the river, / seated backwards in refusal"--Laws & Locks tracks the history of one family's struggle with depression, madness, and mental illness. Chad Campbell's first book of poetry is a brilliant investigation, at once dazzling and unflinching, into the way our predecessors bear on our choices in the present, and how present-day consequences extend backwards in time. A skilled, self-possessed, and clear-eyed poet, Campbell has produced a work of art that, while not quite confessional, transforms the private, dark, often stigmatized regions of his life into powerful poetry.

Author: Chad Campbell
ISBN-10: 1550654020
ISBN-13: 9781550654028
Publisher: Signal Editions
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.55w x 0.04d