A chapbook of poetry by Sam Silva first published by Trout Creek Press in their Dog River Review series
--This text refers to the
Kindle Edition
edition.
I was born in Washington DC in 1954. My father's government work took us to Okinawa, UK, and Puerto Rico while I was growing up. I lived in England when the Beatles came out there between 62 and 65, was in DC for both the election of Kennedy and during the late sixties as well (three times in all) and learned an undying love for Latin America the five years I spent in PR.
When I returned to the States from there my parents had retired to Greenville N.C. and I became severely mentally ill the following year. That is when I decided to write. Poetry, was, for me, a vehicle in the journey of self discovery and a way to map out this epoch which became so frightening especially during the eighties beginning with Reagan's election.
So my books are an internal memoir but also a comment on the age in which I have lived.
bio for Sam Silva
He has published at least 150 poems in print magazines, including Sow's Ear,
The ECU Rebel, Pembroke magazine, Samisdat, St. Andrew's Review, Charlotte Poetry Review,
Main Street Rag, and many more. Has published at least 300 poems
in online journals including Jack Magazine, Comrades, Megaera, Poetry Super Highway,
physik garden, Ken again, -30-, Fairfield Review, Foliate oak, and dozens of others.
Three legitmate small presses have published chapbooks of his, three of those presses
have nominated work of his for Pushcart a total of 7 times. Bright Spark
Creative of Wilimington purchased rights to his first full length book
EATING AND DRINKING and put the book out through author house at there expense.
He now has many books and chapbooks available at http://www.lulu.com/samsilva54 and as kindle books at Amazon.com
And his spoken word poetry is avaible at the major digital markets such as Apple i tunes.
