Ask the Author: David Anthony Sam
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David Anthony Sam
What really happened to my friend Doug?
David Anthony Sam
Watson and Holmes---they are married in all but name and their partnership makes each other better.
David Anthony Sam
6 collections around different themes or sets of imagery
David Anthony Sam
It helps me to be aware of the now---something I have trouble doing. It forces me to pay attention.
David Anthony Sam
Mess up the blank page or screen with something. Then put that something away for at least a week. Look at it again---discard, rewrite and/or celebrate.
David Anthony Sam
Read everything, whether your first impulse is to like it or not. Write your own version of as many other writer's styles as possible. Work on the craft of writing.
But why do you want to write? Really?
But why do you want to write? Really?
David Anthony Sam
Short answer: Just sit down and write something, every day preferably, and don't worry how bad it seems. I try to draft new poems early in the morning or late at night, when the subconscious is near the surface.
But I gain matter for poems from reading, from watching great television like the old and the new "Cosmos" series, from daily life, from simple observations of nature and city life, and from imagining myself as another person.
But I gain matter for poems from reading, from watching great television like the old and the new "Cosmos" series, from daily life, from simple observations of nature and city life, and from imagining myself as another person.
David Anthony Sam
These poems were written over a four-decade period, from the middle 1970s through 2013. They arose from my seeking to better understand where I came from---the influence of nature, of landscape, of place, of geography. I hope they reveal a lifelong conversation with the natural world.
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