Dreaming of France

<p><strong>Winner of the 2017 Blue Light Book Award</strong></p><p>Kerry Tepperman Campbell’s brilliant debut delves into the imaginations of American women who are fascinated with France. These jewel-like vignettes and prose poems weave their way between an imagined world and a real one. Immersed in luminous moments the characters find themselves in a series of fully realized French landscapes including a well preserved Roman amphitheater in Provence a refugee camp in Calais and Empress Josephine’s famous rose garden in Rueil-Malmasion. The reader will be swept away by these seductive vignettes set in a world where archetypes hover and even small moments become indelible.</p><p>Kerry Tepperman Campbell is a writer and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the recipient of the New Millennium Poetry Prize. Her work has recently appeared in <em>New Millennium Writings Bitter Oleander Paterson Literary Review Laurel Review Cloudbank The Round American Mustard</em> and <em>Unstitched States.</em> <em>Dreaming of France</em> is her debut collection of prose poems and vignettes.</p>