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