Poems from the Mud Room

Tantalizingly irreverent; Camner's work smacks of the deliciously absurd with a point. He is a brilliantly bizarre poet and master of the surreal. - Lenny DellaRocca The Poetry Museum 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. - Marta Braunstein editor Cambio Literary Journal Camner writes in terse stark real verse that would make Hemingway raise his scotch glass in honor. - New Times Newspaper 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. - The Comstock Review Camner's 'humour noir' is apparent in his poetics his spirited voice and unabashed freedom - so alive even in his earliest poems. - Peter Hargitai A literary detour and well worth the trip. - Village Voice