Once Upon a World War II

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>The poems in </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)><em>Once Upon a World War II</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> delve into a childhood spent living and surviving World War II starting with Native Lithuania and ending in arrival to America. Unlike parents children for the most part looked at wartime with a perverse degree of normalcy. Yes there was deprivation. However there was an innate desire to make do in spite of all that war brings with it.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>Each poem is like a poignant photograph ... With both tenderness and rage Campe brings the reader into life as a refugee who still manages to find childhood joys hidden in his memories. </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>-Mark Fishbein Chancellor of PGN Poetry Academy</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>Not to be missed this moving glimpse of a child's experience of life in the displaced persons camp at the end of WWII. We should be thankful that the poet has delved into his memory to share this with us</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>-Bradley Strahan former editor of <em>Visions International</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>In sharply observed European vignettes he rewards the reader with narrative and contemplative poetic insights into a life most of us will hopefully never have to live through.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>-Philip Wexler author of <em>Bozo's Obstacle</em></strong></p><p></p>