Ah-meddy-ga

by Michael Campagnoli

all nations press

the finest new poetry and non-fiction

Winner of the 2004 ANP Chapbook Contest, Michael Campagnoli offers a control of words and an understanding of what pulls us all to other places--or, sometimes, places within.

"It is late at night in winter

and the television hums static.

I taste the grit of my

own Strangeness, dream of lives unlived,

And in the living room, dreaming

of horses and cattle drives,

of barroom brawls for meager wagers,

  the italian Cowboy snores."

                --from "Winter Dreams"

                 

ISBN 0-9725110-5-9   $10 US  $14 Canada 

Michael Campagnoli taught literature and writing for five years at Indiana University while studying for his PhD.  He has worked as a waiter, fisherman, journalist, painter, and short-order cook.  He won the New Letters Poetry Award for 2001.  His fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines including New Letters, Stirring, New York Stories, and the Southern Humanities Review.  He can be seen most mornings running somewhere along the coast of Maine with his mongrel dog Yogi and Anthony, his equally mongrel son.