Audrey Hepburn is the muse and channel for his meditations on the seductions of screen and page, the titillations of stardom, fashion, fame and fortune: his poems are haunted by Hepburn and her leading men, thronged with a surprising array of literary spectres and packed with deliciously refracting syntax in a disarmingly simple vocabulary.
In Joseph Campana's debut collection, starring Audrey Hepburn, icons of public consumption speak in the language of private devotion.
Encourage emulation. Inspire idolatry. Be a muse, be a nymph, be a sprite, bewitch me. Rise from obscurity. Set trends. Break habits. Make statements. Count blessings. Distribute kindnesses. Arouse devotion. Devote yourself to nobility. Ascend, ascend, ascend.
-from "How to Be a Star"
