Background
Green was born in Sedro-Woolley, Washington and raised in Anacortes, Washington.
(For the past 25 years Samuel Green has lived on a tiny is...)
For the past 25 years Samuel Green has lived on a tiny island only four square miles in size populated by fewer than a hundred people. The island has no regular phone service, no electricity, no stores. These poems are informed by the lessons Green has learned living in a small rural community where loss and grief have immediate effects, and where love, meaningful work, intimate daily engagement with the natural world, and fidelity to “the art of the marginal” offer a way forward.
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Here is an account of life on an island, close to earth and sea and the things and creatures of a specific place, uttered as declaration or dialogue or meditation, with the soul and sense of a remarkably gifted poet enriching every line, every page. Linked as sequence or by subject to make the patterns of backbones, the poems relate the day-to-day affairs of one who has chosen, with his wife and neighbors for company, to live where the elemental takes on the flesh of meaning in particular, closely observed ways. Every experience is thus as charged and natural and profoundly moving as the sound of the human voice, carried across water from the trees and rocks of the shoreline. Through these poems we hear the voice of one who cherishes language as the vital force connecting us to each other - one who knows how vital the poetic resources of language are to express our deepest feelings, fear, anger, joy, love. And everywhere we encounter, and are refreshed by, Sam Green's acceptance of the poet's status in the world he wakes and works and makes love and sleeps in. Strength and tenderness are here as assuredly as the woodsman's grip on his ax handle, and the player's fingers over the strings of his guitar.
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Green was born in Sedro-Woolley, Washington and raised in Anacortes, Washington.
Afterward, through the Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation Program, he attended college, earning his Bachelor of Arts from Highline Community College and his Master of Arts
He was appointed the first Poet Laureate of the State of Washington in 2007. In 2009, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and sat on the National Education Association panel for the 2011 fellowships. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner.
He spent four years in the Coast Guard, serving in Antarctica and South Vietnam. from Western Washington University.
Green has served several winter terms as the Distinguished Visiting Northwest Writer at Seattle University, as well as several summer terms in Ireland. He has also been a visiting professor at Southern Utah University, Western Wyoming Community College, and Colorado College.
He is active with the Skagit River Poetry Festival. They produce finely printed and bound volumes of verse by poets such as Denise Levertov, Ted Kooser, John Haines, Ted Genoways, and Clifford Burke, among others
Washington State Poet Laureate 2007- 2009.
(Here is an account of life on an island, close to earth a...)
(For the past 25 years Samuel Green has lived on a tiny is...)