Rhina and I have had some back and forth about Campo for a while. He seems to be short on manners--he never replied to an invitation to read at Powow, and apparently was an unappreciated last minute cancellation at West Chester. I found some of his early stuff quite intriguing, and technically skilled, but he's one of those kind of poets whose work seems to go downhill in proportion to growing fame--I have found his more recent work sloppy technically and increasingly reliant on shock value. He's a practicing physician locally; fame, a day job and writing poetry is probably too much for most mortals, so perhaps I should be more sympathetic.
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