Close to the Bone

David Lampe, born and bred on the U.S. prairies, home dweller in a Rust Belt border town, is a people’s poet, readily understood, a tribune of our common humanity, a teller of truth close to the bone. This is a collection of stand-alone poems that enrich one another through proximity between those of societal ruin and those that dream longingly of paradise. Includes 6 black-and-white ink drawings by Gabriela Campos.

Albert Frank Moritz is an United States-born Canadian poet, teacher, and scholar. He has won numerous awards, including the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Raymond Souster Award, as well as being a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry. In 2019, Moritz was named as the new Poet Laureate of Toronto. David Lampe is a native Iowan who lives in Buffalo. Now professor emeritus, he taught Medieval and Modern literature at Buffalo State College for 40 years. He has edited four collections of Irish literature and one of Canadian short stories, and has published three chapbooks of poetry: The Tree Walked, Selected Quarrels and Quivers of Anonymous of Elmwood, and Like A Lark Singing in the Open Sky.Gabriela Campos has paintings, lithographs, monoprints, and drawings in private and corporate collections around the world. Born in Mexico, she has lived in Canada since 2004, while maintaining artistic ties to the culturally vital city of Oaxaca (Mexico).