The poems in An Interesting Detail confront our shared, layered past (both planetary and human) and its knotty relationship to the present, stretching from today to prehistory, in a voice that is knowing and yearning, sincere and sardonic, and at times defiant. Campanello's prose poems, brief lyric outbursts, and poetic sequences ludically navigate catastrophe and sweep us up in the minutiae of everyday life, which includes pain and illness, machinations of power and moments of suspended connection.
An Interesting Detail was published in April 2025 on Bloomsbury’s poetry list edited by Kayo Chingonyi.
“Campanello’s poetics are startlingly inventive [...] This is a work to care about.”
“Campanello’s neat, surprising endings are a central feature of her highly original prose poems.”
“Yet one of the many joys of An Interesting Detail is how the poet takes us with her across spatial and temporal distances, acting as guide, confidante, record-keeper, and perhaps most strikingly, embodying a kind of monument herself. Campanello is a fiercely intelligent poet, a serious poet, but not an unplayful one. ”
“Campanello takes a quasi-archaeological approach to past and present in these grounded yet transportive poems. [She] has a gift for drawing inventive, unexpected connections between objects and their meaning, be that historical or transitory, and the results will reward your time and re-reading.”
“Every detail is interesting in Kimberly Campanello’s An Interesting Detail.”