Ranney Campbell

Pimp Ranney Campbell

Nice cars, fists, zippers, and lies. Simultaneously glamorous and crude, at times, "Pimp" reads like an incantation and these are some of its sacred signs. If you want to understand, you'll be forced to slow down, but before you know it, you'll be pulled along by its frenetic pace - "i made madness i made you mad" - until you've stumbled into a vortex, the eye at the center of which is unmistakably woman.
-Shannon Phillips, author of Bedroom Poems and Body Parts Ranney Campbell's poems stand out for their brutal authenticity and the risks she takes with them in a playful and dangerous kind of language sharpened with the wit of a postmodern Dorothy Parker. She captures the real areas of life in her poems, which are not for polite society that lies to itself. She is the real deal. Ranney Campbell is courageous in her honesty and has a confident and exciting voice that is wise and visionary. This collection requires several readings and I cannot recommend it enough.
-Kevin Ridgeway, author of Too Young to Know and Fossil of the New Scene Ranney Campbell is from St. Louis, Missouri where she earned BS and MFA degrees from the University of Missouri at St. Louis and currently lives in Southern California. Her poems have been published or accepted by Misfit Magazine, Shark Reef, Silver Birch Press and The Main Street Rag.