Poems from the Mud Room

"e;Tantalizingly irreverent; Camner's work smacks of the deliciously absurd with a point. He is a brilliantly bizarre poet and master of the surreal."e; - Lenny DellaRocca The Poetry Museum"e;Camner defies the traditional aesthetic concepts of poetry. He targets a world of ideas in a rather active way as opposed to the more passive, meditative aspects found in most poetry. There is a linguistic simplicity to his poems, an almost transparent quality, over a rather complex web of experience and thought. His poetry is life 'All you have to do is look' - The obvious and not so obvious."e; - Marta Braunstein, editor Cambio Literary Journal "e;Camner writes in terse, stark, real verse that would make Hemingwayraise his scotch glass in honor."e; - New Times Newspaper "e;Camner's poetic style is reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's detective writing; descriptive and terse with interesting plot lines. His characters are certainly the product of a vivid imagination."e; - The Comstock Review"e;Camner's 'humour noir' is apparent in his poetics, his spirited voice and unabashed freedom - so alive, even in his earliest poems."e; - Peter Hargitai"e;A literary detour, and well worth the trip."e; - Village Voice