Thank you Allan Peterson for the nice Goodreads review of my chapbook "Finite to Fail"

Thank you Allan Peterson for the nice Goodreads review of my chapbook “Finite to Fail”

 

“Emily Dickinson’s influence and inspirations can be found everywhere in contemporary poetry. Her energetic rhythms and observations on life and reverence for that life, also echo in the chapbook, “Finite to Fail, poems after Dickinson” by Virginia poet David Anthony Sam, from GFT Press.

“Emily’s punctuational dashes, as in the title’s dedicatory poem, are used exclusively by Sam throughout these twenty reflective, almost devotional, lyrics. And whether replying to her well known “I’m nobody! Who are you?” or devising his own reflections under her spell, the poems demonstrate both homage and originality. In short, he “’splits the lark.’”