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In the pages of 174 Edgewood, poet Bobbie Campbell weaves childhood memories of her large family and larger-than-life parents with hard won realizations about destructive family patterns. Campbell's poems don't shy from the chaotic atmosphere resulting from her parents' alcoholism, but underneath these difficult stories we discover a narrator with keen powers of observation and a startling sense of humor.

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""Bobbie Campbell's poems tell unvarnished truths, without once resorting to sentimentality or excuse-making, for herself or anyone else. But by the time we reach them, we already know something about her that will make all the difference, something that in her mini-preface she doesn't quite say: this woman knows how to love."" Lola Haskins, author of Like Zeros, Like Pearls ""Lift a glass, reader, you're in for a rollicking, yet sobering ride into Bobbie Campbell's brave poems. When she opens the door to 174 Edgewood, you can slip into the rooms of her family, the rooms of her heart. You will not want to stop opening doors to father, sisters, brothers and especially her mother's room. Everyone drinks. Still the mother drives these poems like a runaway car."" Diana Pinckney, author of The Beast and the Innocent ""Welcome to 174 Edgewood, where we meet parents and siblings who are trying to make sense of the cataclysms of their lives-the drinking, the secrets, the guilt, the one who was taken away. With an uncanny candor that startles, Bobbie Campbell takes us into her childhood universe and, in doing so, enables us to more honestly view our own. These poems are heartbreaking, but also funny and radiant and remarkable. They ultimately remind us of the compelling ties of love."" Judy Goldman, author of The Rest of Our Lives

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Barbara (Bobbie) Campbell began her career in New York where she worked for Oxford University Press and The New Yorker, though she doesn't like to admit as a secretary. In 1966, she moved to Charlotte, NC with her husband, where they raised their sons and made a permanent home. A dedicated member of Charlotte's writing community, Campbell served as associate editor of the Red Clay Reader series, editions 4 through 7. She loves to read, travel, take daily walks, sing in a choir, Zoom with her remaining siblings, visit with her sons and their families, laugh with friends and watch films that are dark, dramatic and disturbing. Campbell's poetry has appeared in Rattle, Kakalak; Journey Within; Pinesong; The Southern Poetry Anthology, North Carolina; Poet Lore and others. 174 Edgewood is her first poetry collection.

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