Home

by Benjamin Campbell

Home is the first book of poetry in Benjamin Campbell's 13books series. Charting a range of topics throughout the year, these books aim to capture a slice of modern life. In this collection, the sense of home that is rooted in place and space soon gives way to larger questions of belonging; the home becomes the site of love and loss, inspiration and deathly boredom. Throughout, the simple and mundane are transformed into portals of memory and emotion. You can read more of Benjamin's work at his blog,

39 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 12, 2017

Reviews

[Christina Hopp · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm so glad I finally read this book, I won a giveaway for it so so so long ago. I'm a sucker for the theme of "Home" and Benjamin wrote different angles of this idea. He wrote a lot of profound lines that dropped my jaw, my favorite being in "Relativity": "You know your place only / in relation to the space / that crowds around it". This simple statement says so much more than the rest of the poem touches on - I'd consider it the thesis of the whole book about Home, finding it, being in it, and defining it.