Memory--how we retrieve and replenish it--is at the heart of
Nectarine, Chad Campbell's visionary second collection. Figures,
cities, and landscapes from the author's life shift in and out of these
dreamlike poems that explore the "unaccountable, uncountable" ways in
which our past keeps speaking to us: through objects, through paintings,
through colours, and through the spectre of places that map themselves
over the places we live in. Subtle, unsettling, compressed, and full of
incandescently beautiful language, Nectarine is about lost things,
stranded moments, and traces preserved in time like "a glass of frozen
nectarine halves / on a table made of ice."