Worn Smooth between Devourings Prints savor the beauty of North

savor the beauty of North America from the saddle of a bike

the material meaning of cochineal in art and trade

but no other book like this one

Each candle is uniquely made

of the Earth

Worn Smooth between Devourings Prints savor the beauty of NorthA new Book by the New Mexico Poet Laureate, Lauren Camp. The poems in WORN SMOOTH BETWEEN DEVOURINGS travel through fears of ecological devastation and national and global tragedy, and map routes away from despair. Worry remains in the background, even in landscapes that still hold time's beginning. Even in long love. "We are suspended in places entire and different and home," Camp writes. These precise, sonically driven poems investigate a confessed