Book description
Hearing Kimberly Campanello's An Interesting Detail read aloud is like stepping into a living room where the past breathes through the windows. The audiobook doesn't just present poems-it invites you into their rhythm, making the themes of return, repetition, and layered existence feel immediate, almost tangible. Fran Lock's description of "costumes and repetitions available to the speaker in a new place" isn't just a phrase here; it's the very pulse of the listening experience. Campanello's voice, calm yet charged, guides you through landscapes that stretch from prehistory to today, weaving planetary shifts with the quiet ache of daily life-illness, power plays, fleeting moments of connection.
What makes this audiobook extraordinary is how it turns the abstract into the intimate. The "knotty relationship between past and present" isn't explained; it's felt in the pauses between lines, the way a sentence about "machinations of power" is delivered with a quiet, knowing edge. You hear the "sincere and sardonic" tone Lock mentions, not as a label, but as a texture in the narrator's voice. A line about "resurrecting patterns of being" lands differently when spoken-less like an idea, more like a memory you've carried in your bones. The brief lyric bursts, the prose poems that feel like whispered confessions, gain depth through the cadence. You don't just read about "suspended connection"; you hear it in the slight hesitations, the way the voice holds space between words.
The beauty lies in how Campanello's voice navigates catastrophe without grandiosity. Catastrophe isn't shouted-it's woven into the mundane: a coffee cup left cooling, the weight of a shared silence. This is poetry that doesn't demand your attention; it draws you in, whispering, This is how we carry the world. The audiobook's pacing is deliberate, letting each image settle-like the "minutiae of everyday life" she describes-so you notice the detail in the dust on a windowsill, the echo of a past conversation in a new city. And when she turns defiant, as the blurbs note, it's not a shout. It's a quiet, steady lift of the chin in the voice, making the defiance feel earned, human.
This isn't just a book about time or memory; it's a reminder that we're always already living in the past, reshaping it with every step. Listening, you realize the "costumes" we borrow-the ways we act, speak, even love-are not just habits, but acts of survival. Campanello's voice makes you hear your own life in the rhythm of hers, making the "new place" feel less like a destination and more like a conversation with everything that came before. It's a collection that doesn't just speak to you-it settles into your bones, long after the final word fades. In a world that often feels like it's moving too fast, An Interesting Detail is a gift: a slow, steady hand on your shoulder, saying, Look. Here is where we've been, and here is where we're still becoming.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience