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Cameron Brooks is the author of Forbearance (Cascade Books, 2025).

A poet and essayist from South Dakota, he holds degrees from the University of Sioux Falls (B.A.), Princeton Theological Seminary (M.A.) and Seattle Pacific University (M.F.A.).

Cameron's work is found in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry East, Cumberland River Review, Third Wednesday, North Dakota Quarterly, Ad Fontes, New Verse Review, and elsewhere. His poem “White Space” won the South Dakota State Poetry Society annual contest.

Cameron lives in Sioux Falls with his wife and son. ...more

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Forbearance: Poems

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Collected Earlier Poems of Anthony Hecht: The Complete Texts of The Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows, and The Venetian Vespers

by Anthony Hecht

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Cameron Brooks said: " Peerless, if you ask me. Hecht's standards of form, diction, and syntax completely outclass most of the stuff that passes for poetry today--yet without the air of snobbery one might expect of a staunch 20th-century formalist. *cue anxiety of influenc ...more "

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All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter & Versification

by Timothy Steele

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East of Eden

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