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A reading of "Fatherhood" --- a poem from my new collection, "Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves." Fatherhood

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 jou...

World Tree by David Wojahn My 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. View all my reviews

Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst My 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. View all my reviews