The Grace of Necessity - Softcover

Green, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887484794 ISBN 13: 9780887484797

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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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About the Author

SAMUEL GREEN has lived nearly all his life in the Pacific Northwest. He joined the U.S. Coast Guard at 17, and saw service first in Antarctica, and then in South Vietnam. Later he earned his M.A. in English from Western Washington University through the Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation Program. He has been a visiting poet at colleges in Utah, Wyoming, and Washington, most recently at Seattle University, teaching winter quarters in Seattle, and summer quarters in Ireland. His poems have appeared in Poet & Critic, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, and many other journals. For the past two dozen years, Green has lived in a hand-built log house on a tiny, remote island, where he and his wife, Sally, are publishers of the award-winning Brooding Heron Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0887484794
• ISBN 13: 9780887484797
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112