Monty Campbell Jr.

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Monty Campbell is a wichasha wakan for our times.  I've had the great fortune of reading through his book three times now and each time I was left shattered, awed and breathless.  May these poems be the first of many such incantations.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                                                                      Paul Hapenny</div> <bR> <bR> <div> This first book by Monty Campbell, Jr. makes a large dent, indeed.  Careening around every corner the reader finds startling metaphors, precision line-breaks, and enough poetic arsenal to supply NASA's next mission.  Monty's “music slides / through the genetic / garbage of a / Rochester alley…” His poems are Manifestos / written on / cell phones / portraits of / everyday / struggle” and “Rez Photos” where “all the skin is brown, / weighed / and forgiven…”  These poems are alternately sensual, despairing, angry, hopeful, but always crafted with love out of three decades of survival on the real side of America's tracks.  If Lou Reed is correct that it takes a “Busload of Faith to get by,” here it is, achieving lift-off. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                                                                      John Roche</div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the Introduction:</div> <bR> <div> .  I think that never have I read work by an indigenous writer in which so much is said about the beauty of Earth filtered through palimpsest-images of city, ghost streets, train tracks, and litter forced upon Turtle Island and our planet altogether.  It is beauty conveyed through loss.  I literally hurt when I read Monty's poetry.  Yet, as I state in my blurb, Monty's poems have led me to understand something about love which I never understood before.  When you read this book, I trust you will <I>get</I> why I cannot paraphrase any poems herein; doing so would strip the tropes, deep song, and enfolding spaces of their haunting realness, evocations and dreamscapes (if not nightmare-scapes).  It would do dishonor to that love.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Susan Deer Cloud</div> <bR> <div> <B>From the book:</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>On the Cliffs</B></I></div> <bR> <div> The ground,</div> <div> an expanse of</div> <div> snake lairs</div> <div> spreading carnage</div> <div> against the sunset,</div> <div> time is vanished tonight,</div> <div> coyotes keep the minutes,</div> <div> wind encompasses</div> <div> lazy eyed wanderers,</div> <div> down in the canyon</div> <div> are ancient footprints</div> <div> covered by a wild cat's</div> <div> tire tracks,</div> <div> I hear the crack of</div> <div> glacier sculpted walls,</div> <div> scented of ceremony,</div> <div> a whispering river</div> <div> into the ears,</div> <div> Lakota song</div> <div> to the broken heart...</div> <div> can't evade this moment,</div> <div> luminous, silken</div> <div> star formations</div> <div> blinking messages back</div> <div> and forth to New York,</div> <div> back to birth and before,</div> <div> into any soul</div> <div> who would listen,</div> <div> I understand now, why</div> <div> so many songs have </div> <div> been written.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>On Ancient Land</B></I><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> The cat tails hide</div> <div> Cayuga ghost warriors,</div> <div> I look to the sky world</div> <div> to repent,</div> <div> corpses of trees</div> <div> decompose in a marsh</div> <div> next to a wide shaven field...</div> <div> this used to be Mohawk corn,</div> <div> the oldest of my sisters,</div> <div> but now, beyond the trees</div> <div> in the distance,</div> <div> crushing the earth,</div> <div> are stacks of rusted out cars</div> <div> with numbers painted</div> <div> on their sides.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Poet Monty Campbell is a member of the Cayuga Tribe of the Six Nations. He grew up in and around Gowanda, NY, the Cattaraugus Reservation and Rochester, NY's inner city. He currently lives in Rochester, NY. He has recently been published in the indigenous poets anthology, <I>I was Indian</I> (FootHills Publishing, 2009) and <I>Simpatico, On the Road</I> (Simpatico, 2009). He most recently read on a native writers panel at the AWP Conference in Washington, DC.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Artist Devin Antonio Hedman graduated from the University of Buffalo with an MFA in computer art and a minor in Art History.</div> <bR> <div> “I create art to tell a story left open to the interpretation and imagination of the viewer, the creation is meant to be dependant on personal experiences and convictions without direct definition, a story without direction and imagery a reflection to ones soul.”</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>A Large Dent in the Moon </B></I>is a 56 page hand-stitched paper book with spine - $14.00. </div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" ><I><B>A Large Dent in the Moon</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A>     </div> <bR> <div> ON-LINE          <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U> </U></A>                              </div> <bR> <div> From the US      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="A Large Dent in the Moon"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="11-08"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Canada      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="A Large Dent in the Moon"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="11-08"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="A Large Dent in the Moon"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="11-08"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>