Objects: A Poetry Collection

Just in time for my book signing next month, my first ever collection of poetry has just been published on Amazon.com as a paperback and as an eBook. It is also available on barnesandnoble.com in eBook format.

A poem is a series of words, emotions, and ideas, tightly crafted and put together in an order that complements those words, emotions, and ideas, but that also leaves room for multiple interpretations, all of which are correct. That’s the glory of poetry (and most writing, actually), that it lends itself to many interpretations depending on the history of each and every reader. I love to read reactions to my poetry, and to plumb the depths of the myriad definitions that surround each one that come from each individual reader. In fact, poetry writing, to me, has become an exchange between me and each person who reads my poems. I can almost hear the conversation as I’m writing, and that makes me smile.

I wrote a poem once in fifth grade that had about a million “and”s in it. Really it was just a few words strung together that honestly made no sense. Little did I know then that my poetry career had been started so inauspiciously back then, but I look back on it with pride. Objects is my first published collection of poetry, and while none of the poems you’ll find here was written in fifth grade, they still represent a wide range of years and emotions. It was a labor of love to compile my poems here, as well as eight new poems I wrote specifically for the collection.

Purchase Objects: A Poetry Collection in paperback form.

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Sam