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De LA Palabra (Dog River Review Poetry Series)

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Of the five chapbooks of Sam Silva's poetry published by Trout Creek Press, DE LA PALABRA is the finest. Here the reader will confront not the business-as-usual poetry of contemporary America, but rather a passionate verse that is a throwback to a time when sound and rhythm were at least as important as content. Just a sample from "Prayers to an Infant King": One morning again! One wind-shot dawn! One ache of the sea and the sky and the palm.

DE LA PALABRA is a collection of twenty-eight mostly brief, highly religious poems. But as Ron Bayes notes in the foreward, these are poems that often "shake a fist at God" out of love and despair: But what corpse do we worship? and is it for naught but stones or is it indeed for bread... Besides his advanced sense of lyricism, Silva also creates much memorable imagery as in "Seeking Plenty": Riches, riches and sick despair. Even on a tropical island, the black hoof of God... If you are looking for a poetry that borrows from the past to create something extraordinarily fresh and new, that at once startles, then instructs, then Sam Silva may be for you, and DE LA PALABRA is a good place to start.

THIS IS INFORMATION FOR YOUR BOOKSTORE'S PURPOSES. I am the author of De La Palabra. Trout Creek Press published it during the nineties as one of five books of mine published under the DOG RIVER REVIEW SERIES.

My current email address is samsilva54@email.msn.com (my server was for a brief period a local server called "Faynet")

My postal address is Sam Silva 309 Spring St. Fayetteville N.C. 28305

I mention all of this because in links you have mentioned that your bookstore has "music" of mine as well. There is a well known Brazillian musician named "DANI SAM SILVA"...HE IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF DE LA PALABRA...I AM! I have not published or professionally recorded any music in my life.

Thanks,

Sam Silva