More Advanced Praise for "It Ain't Truth If It Doesn't Hurt"

Hey folks:

Super exciting news. Ed Bok Lee, author of the best-selling collection of poetry Real Karaoke People reviewed my manuscript for my upcoming book (and collaboration with visual artist David Berube) from Summerfolk Press: It Ain't Truth If It Doesn't Hurt.

Here is what Ed had to say:

Brandon Lacy Campos is a word thief of the best and brightest kind, pilfering from “a corrupt system that must fall/If we’re ever to have liberty and justice for all.” These scathing, impassioned poems kick up stars dragged along asphalt—with outlandish sass, old-time funk, and a hot, ever-shimmying soul that could teach the stiffest otherness in anyone more than a few things about its most generous self.


--Ed Bok Lee, author of Real Karaoke People

Look for It Ain't Truth If It Doesn't Hurt in October 2009!

Advanced Praise for It Ain't Truth If It Doesn't Hurt!

Advanced praise for my first solo book of poetry, due out at the end of September from Summerfolk Press, It Ain't Truth If It Doesn't Hurt.. Look soon for the release of a webpage for the book!

"Brandon Lacy Campos is part tomahawk thrower and part philosopher, a fresh voice of queer rebellion, an outsider talking of revolution, avenging exploitation. The stinging lashes on a slave’s back, the mystical incantations of native medicine men, the curiosities of an innocent white child and the cultural bisection of a bilingual Latino—these are the things he sees, as these are the things he is. These poems are monuments to the victims of abuse, to the splendor of visionary queer consciousness—to true America."

Charlie Vázquez, fiction writer, blogger and host of the queer East Village reading series, PANIC!