DELTA FUNCTION

by Samantha Terrell, Alien Buddha (contributor)

79 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2024

About the author

Samantha Terrell is an American poet, author of multiple five-star collections, and curator of SHINE Poetry Series, which features her fellow contemporaries from around the globe. Terrell is an active member of in-person and online poetry communities, and her poems have been widely anthologized in publications including: 100 Subtexts, Door=Jar, Eunoia Review, Fevers of the Mind, In Parentheses, Poetry Quarterly, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and others. She has been a Forward Prize nominee (2024), a Pushcart Prize nominee (2023 & 2024), and was shortlisted for the Anita McAndrews Poets for Human Rights Award (2021). Terrell and her family reside in Upstate New York where she cherishes sunbeams splattered on a hardwood floor and the quiet after snowfall.

Reviews

[Shaun McMichael · Rating 5 out of 5]

DELTA FUNCTION is a gentle, moving dialogue with theology, the sciences, and the poet’s biography, especially in poems “Final Gifts” and “Fragments”. Imagistic and concise, the verses herein focus on action, rumination, and encounters with the senses. Through this collection, Terrell imparts how the zeroes of what our days are worth can be measured in front of and behind the “1”. “The present is also the past./All of being is a quiet trickle of sweat down the spine”. In every piece, there’s release and joy in the transience of life. “All are shadows—and light”, Terrell writes in “All Are Shadows”. Make a place on your bookshelf for this resplendent collection!