Dan Campbell "What Do You Think It Means" Book

For the first time since 2009’s “Paper Boats,” Dan Campbell is releasing a work of poetry. His second chapbook, “What Do You Think it Means?” features a collection of poems built from his dream journal entries. Each chapbook pre-ordered here will come autographed by Dan.

Some notes of praise for "What Do You Think It Means?"

“The gift of these poems is — like the best Wonder Years songs — the gift of transportation. You are being carried to a place, a time, a moment, that you may not know intimately, but you already feel like you miss it. You are given a place within it, and it becomes yours. That’s the miracle of this work.” - Hanif Abdurraqib, poet, author, essayist, MacArthur Fellow 

"As in John Berryman’s “Dream Songs,” forms emerge from the dark haze of Campbell’s unconscious – miraculously, the distinction of his language ekes meaning from abstraction like blood from stone. Late industrial grit, exhaust, the everyday. A story about a father, afraid: which is to say, Campbell has once again tracked and transfigured the image-repertoire of American manhood. 

Lonely but not alone, the sleeper is visited phantasmically by those from whom he is descended and those who have descended from him, and borrowed speech – refrains from the Eagles, the Foundations, the void –  finds its way into his screaming mouth." -Holden Seidlitz, poet and writer, The New Yorker

24 pages.

THIS ITEM IS ON PRE-ORDER UNTIL DECEMBER 30TH. ANY ORDER CONTAINING THIS ITEM WILL SHIP ON OR AROUND DECEMBER 30TH. PRE-ORDER AND SHIP DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.