Bücher von Sam Schmidt

"Dark Bird grows quietly 'toward something true', the struggle with our demons, especially, the demon of our silence. Its vulnerability roots deeply through an impersonal spiritual journey. These poems slowly expand and blossom leaving you with 'something stronger than hope'." -Edgar Gabriel Silex, author of Acts of Love"I'm walking toward something true/something green I can taste," writes Sam Schmidt in Dark Bird, a meditation on urgent subjects such as climate and government, as well as a record of one man's grappling with paternal legacy. Throughout this unusual book, Schmidt's skill steadies the reader while poetic shapeshifting makes turning the pages a complete pleasure."-Natasha Saje, author of The Future Will Call You Something Else

In Suburban Myths, Sam Schmidt writes poetry that plumbs the depths of everyday life in that most artificial of environments, the American suburb. He explores not only the myth that is the suburb-an island in time and space trying to forestall nature and history while also being part of them, and the myths of romantic love and family life by which the suburbs call to something in our hearts-but also the sometimes-whimsical myths that we create to try to make the suburban world come round at those times when it suddenly seems foreign.