Modern Camping

by Tyler Flynn Dorholt

Modern Camping, by Tyler Flynn Dorholt, winner of a 2013 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship (New York). Selected and introduced by John Yau.

Edition: 500 Copies of the winning books were printed by Westcan Printing Group and designed by Gabriele Wilson, with art by Julianna Goodman.

35 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

www.tylerflynndorholt.com

Reviews

[Ron Mohring · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've been a huge fan of this chapbook series for years and own at least 25 titles, but this one, though I've tried twice to read it through carefully, just doesn't stick. Here are some lines from the title poem:

"There is a place away from the farm but / silence works in gaps"

"a blade of grass comes into a hand / & I have tied them on"

"I haven't seen the longing / unforgiving / as a storm changes / we can only drive out here / be driven"

Umm. . . What?

First person to request my copy can have it for a hot dollar. Seriously, I'll mail it to you.

[Joe Milazzo · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Things between coming & returning seem not to be anything but a part of." A book about embarking, the difference between looking and observing, language as both lubricant and obduracy, the paradox of a self in conversation with the synecdoche of its own erotics (broadly conceived). Which is to say, these are love poems, but of a most unconventional sort: Stein-ian, Badiou-esque. "I move alongside bodies with the decision of leaving the narrows, where I'd begun to care for her initial void. I thought I heard somebody right where it abandoned her, the voice of mine that said it could not do that."