When We Write We Keep Saying Hello: Poems

A collection of 58 poems, Nicholas Campbell is a practitioner of the short poem. Poet J-son Wooi-chin, author of the book, "Homing Pigeon," Singapore Unipress, 2001, has this to say about Nicholas Campbell's poems: "I've always liked the contemplative quality of his work, as though there is a freedom and importance in doing nothing. His voice is like the shadows of a ceiling fan striking across the dinner room, all at once important and unimportant." The late Benjamin Saltman, author of Deck, Ithaca House, 1979; The Leaves The People, Red Hill Press, 1974, and The Book Of Moss," Garden Street Press, 1992, wrote of his poems, "Poems that make a reader feel as if one has opened a book into summer, poems that linger after they close and that one wears like talismans, like amulets that protect you against despair and urge you to go on. These poems continue a tradition of lyric intensity, of short poems which enter immediately into meaning and have the sort of mysterious clarity we find in work by William Stafford, Robert Francis and Bert Meyers."