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May 13, 2014
A new journal, Literature Today, has accepted my poem "Ed...
A new journal, Literature Today, has accepted my poem "Eden" for future publication.
The Summerset Review has accepted "This Weavin...
The Summerset Review has accepted "This Weaving" for publication in an upcoming issue.
http://www.summersetreview.org/
http://www.summersetreview.org/
May 11, 2014
Vivarium: Poems by Natasha SajaeMy rating: 4 of 5 starsAn...
Vivarium: Poems by Natasha SajaeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
An interesting experimental collection. Saje' plays with language, etymology, type all organized by the English alphabet. Some of the experiments are a bit too cute. But overall, some fine lines and passionate poetry. Enjoy the vivarium of living poetry.
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May 10, 2014
Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves
Countdown to my book release: 36 days till June 15
May 4, 2014
A Boy's Will by Robert FrostMy rating: 2 of 5 starsEarly ...
A Boy's Will by Robert FrostMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Early Frost---with the weakness of late 19th Century "poetic diction," There are glimmers of what great poetry that is to come. If you are studying his development, this is a good collection to see where Frost began, Otherwise, move to later collections for the good stuff.
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April 29, 2014
A reading of "Fatherhood" --- a poem from my new collecti...
A reading of "Fatherhood" --- a poem from my new collection, "Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves."
Fatherhood
Fatherhood
My new collection of poetry will be release in June 2014
Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves: PoemsI am happy to announce the upcoming release of my first full-length collection of poetry.
"Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves" gathers semi-autobiographical poetry about a boyhood and adult life lived in conversation with nature. In this volume, David Anthony Sam describes a life shaped by his youth in Pennsylvania and Michigan and his journey by thumb through the Pacific Northwest. The imprint of these experiences molds his ecological holism and sense of the holiness of the commonplace and of all life.
"Memories in Clay" will be released as a trade paperback and eBook available on Amazon in June 2014.
Two respected poets have the following to say about this collection:
“David Sam is a poet of deep identity with the natural world. In these intimate narratives of discovery and awe, the poems speak often with an almost breathless urgency, reminding us of the inexhaustible life within life, testaments to a unique sensitivity, in a boy and then a man. In journeys both actual and metaphorical, the self is not different than rivers or sunrise. ‘I am made of water and wild air,’ one poem says. The lucky reader breathes deeply.”
- Allan Peterson, author of Fragile Acts and All the Lavish in Common
“David Anthony Sam’s poems are literally rooted in the earth, seeded in the rich, dark soil. Whether he’s writing about childhood or the rivers of Pennsylvania, these poems are filled with fields, mountains, lakes, snow and stars; they remind us that human life is found in the morning air, in the golden rays of the rising sun, in a bird’s call as dusk arrives. Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves is an impressive book that will transport you into the natural world where, as Sam writes, you will become ‘forgetful and human again.’”
- David James, author of She Dances Like Mussolini, winner of the 2010 Next Generation Indie book award in poetry
"Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves" gathers semi-autobiographical poetry about a boyhood and adult life lived in conversation with nature. In this volume, David Anthony Sam describes a life shaped by his youth in Pennsylvania and Michigan and his journey by thumb through the Pacific Northwest. The imprint of these experiences molds his ecological holism and sense of the holiness of the commonplace and of all life.
"Memories in Clay" will be released as a trade paperback and eBook available on Amazon in June 2014.
Two respected poets have the following to say about this collection:
“David Sam is a poet of deep identity with the natural world. In these intimate narratives of discovery and awe, the poems speak often with an almost breathless urgency, reminding us of the inexhaustible life within life, testaments to a unique sensitivity, in a boy and then a man. In journeys both actual and metaphorical, the self is not different than rivers or sunrise. ‘I am made of water and wild air,’ one poem says. The lucky reader breathes deeply.”
- Allan Peterson, author of Fragile Acts and All the Lavish in Common
“David Anthony Sam’s poems are literally rooted in the earth, seeded in the rich, dark soil. Whether he’s writing about childhood or the rivers of Pennsylvania, these poems are filled with fields, mountains, lakes, snow and stars; they remind us that human life is found in the morning air, in the golden rays of the rising sun, in a bird’s call as dusk arrives. Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves is an impressive book that will transport you into the natural world where, as Sam writes, you will become ‘forgetful and human again.’”
- David James, author of She Dances Like Mussolini, winner of the 2010 Next Generation Indie book award in poetry
My new collection of poetry will be release in June 2014
I am happy to announce the upcoming release of my first full-length collection of poetry.
"Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves" gathers semi-autobiographical poetry about a boyhood and adult life lived in conversation with nature. In this volume, David Anthony Sam describes a life shaped by his youth in Pennsylvania and Michigan and his journey by thumb through the Pacific Northwest. The imprint of these experiences molds his ecological holism and sense of the holiness of the commonplace and of all life.
"Memories in Clay" will be released as a trade paperback and eBook available on Amazon in June 2014.
Two respected poets have the following to say about this collection:
“David Sam is a poet of deep identity with the natural world. In these intimate narratives of discovery and awe, the poems speak often with an almost breathless urgency, reminding us of the inexhaustible life within life, testaments to a unique sensitivity, in a boy and then a man. In journeys both actual and metaphorical, the self is not different than rivers or sunrise. ‘I am made of water and wild air,’ one poem says. The lucky reader breathes deeply.”
- Allan Peterson, author of Fragile Acts and All the Lavish in Common
“David Anthony Sam’s poems are literally rooted in the earth, seeded in the rich, dark soil. Whether he’s writing about childhood or the rivers of Pennsylvania, these poems are filled with fields, mountains, lakes, snow and stars; they remind us that human life is found in the morning air, in the golden rays of the rising sun, in a bird’s call as dusk arrives. Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves is an impressive book that will transport you into the natural world where, as Sam writes, you will become ‘forgetful and human again.’”
- David James, author of She Dances Like Mussolini, winner of the 2010 Next Generation Indie book award in poetry
"Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves" gathers semi-autobiographical poetry about a boyhood and adult life lived in conversation with nature. In this volume, David Anthony Sam describes a life shaped by his youth in Pennsylvania and Michigan and his journey by thumb through the Pacific Northwest. The imprint of these experiences molds his ecological holism and sense of the holiness of the commonplace and of all life.
"Memories in Clay" will be released as a trade paperback and eBook available on Amazon in June 2014.
Two respected poets have the following to say about this collection:
“David Sam is a poet of deep identity with the natural world. In these intimate narratives of discovery and awe, the poems speak often with an almost breathless urgency, reminding us of the inexhaustible life within life, testaments to a unique sensitivity, in a boy and then a man. In journeys both actual and metaphorical, the self is not different than rivers or sunrise. ‘I am made of water and wild air,’ one poem says. The lucky reader breathes deeply.”
- Allan Peterson, author of Fragile Acts and All the Lavish in Common
“David Anthony Sam’s poems are literally rooted in the earth, seeded in the rich, dark soil. Whether he’s writing about childhood or the rivers of Pennsylvania, these poems are filled with fields, mountains, lakes, snow and stars; they remind us that human life is found in the morning air, in the golden rays of the rising sun, in a bird’s call as dusk arrives. Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves is an impressive book that will transport you into the natural world where, as Sam writes, you will become ‘forgetful and human again.’”
- David James, author of She Dances Like Mussolini, winner of the 2010 Next Generation Indie book award in poetry
April 19, 2014
World Tree by David WojahnMy rating: 4 of 5 starsWhile th...
World Tree by David WojahnMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
While there are some poems that simply try too hard and amass too many references for my taste, there is much that is fine in and about this volume by David Wojahn. At its best, references to personal and world history, current events and his family, and the universal arc of human life all interlace like the leaves of the World Tree that is one of his dominant analogies here.
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April 13, 2014
Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by...
Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert BringhurstMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Bringhurst is a polymath to be envied. He writes about language, poetry, typography, art, translation, Native American culture, nature and much more with erudition, passion, and elan.
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