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Samuel Peralta

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http://www.goodreads.com/Semaphore

gender

male

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http://amzn.to/samuelperalta

twitter username

Semaphore

genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

Pablo Neruda, T.S. Eliot, Craig Raine

member since

June 2009

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Samuel Peralta has won awards for his poetry worldwide, including a Palanca Award for his collection "Pacific", from the BBC, the UK Poetry Society, and shortlists with the League of Canadian Poets and for the Arc Poem of the Year.

He has four books of poetry available - http://amzn.to/samuelperalta - "Sonata Vampirica", "Sonnets from the Labtador", "How More Beautiful You Are", and "Tango Desolado" - all of which have been Amazon poetry bestsellers, debuting at #1 on the Amazon Kindle Hot New Releases in Poetry.

As @Semaphore - http://twitter.com/semaphore - he placed #1 worldwide in the voting for the Best Poetry on Twitter. His poems have appeared in Existere, the Malahat Review, MiPoesias, OCHO, Seedpod, Undercurrents, and other journals...more

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Average rating: 4.87 · 39 ratings · 6 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors

	Sonnets from the Labrador 4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sonata Vampirica 4.89 of 5 stars 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How More Beautiful You Are 4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tango Desolado 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sonnets from the Labrador 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MiPOesias (Vol 24, Issue 1) by J.A. Tyler (Goodreads Author), Ron Androla (Goodreads Author), Adam Fieled 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Seven Last Words (Poetry)

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Description: A poem from my upcoming collection "War and Ablution", part of the Semaphore collection, forthcoming from Windrift Books.

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Sonata Vampirica

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Samuel liked J.J. Brown's review of Sonata Vampirica: " The poem story "Sonata Vampirica" is dangerously hot, like molten rock. The cover does the poems justice, with tatoo as a symbol of art through pain. The story of the Sonata is a passionate look at love, pain and longing alternating between the pr... " Read more of this review »
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