Paul Newman Blues

a mini chapbook by Pris Campbell
published by Full of Crow Press


 Cover by Coleen Shin

 

 

Pris Campbell never disappoints, and when her own always complex and sensuous poetic speaker imaginatively unites with an equally complex and richly associative Paul Newman, the resulting poems are every bit as titillating as one would hope.

 --Scott Owens, Editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, Author of The Fractured World

Reading Pris Campbell’s new chapbook “Paul Newman Blues” is like taking in one of those PBS retrospectives, only the snippets of scenes have annotations that tell you what the actors are thinking. Actually, they tell you what you’re thinking, which is even more fun. What makes this little collection enduring is the proximity of identification in our admiration and Campbell's deft use of plot twists and juxtapositions which assign multiple meanings and interpretations in various plot contexts.

-- Ed Nudelman, author of If It Looks Like An Elephant






Excerpts from two of the nine poems


Nobody's Fool


Melanie Griffith is flashing Paul Newman.
He's over seventy and sexier than George Clooney..
She flubs the scene to get in a few retakes.
She's flustered, besides.
It's not every day a gal gets to flash Paul Newman,
draw pay for it, and not get on Joanne’s bad side, besides..

(continued)




Rapunzel's Gold

Paul holds my hand.
He's dressed like Butch
and it's the cliff scene.
Sundance is throwing up,
won't make the jump.
Paul winks and we leap,
wind screaming against our chests,
legs pumping.

(continued)

 

 

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Five dollars includes shipping and handling



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