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Poetry. An obsessive perfectionist, Samuel Andreyev inhabits several worlds: he writes in English while living in France; he is an internationally known composer, performer, and teacher; and he is an experimental poet who documents words, phrases, and rhetorical devices while staying true to the fundamental tools of classical poetry. THE RELATIVISTIC EMPIRE, Andreyev's second poetry collection, combines the brevity and lightness of a comic strip with the complexity and richness of French symbolist poetry. Spare, yet rich with meaning; suggesting narrative, while forcefully pushing away from it--these poems strive for an edgy involvement with the world and language. Only a poet straddling borders of sound and sense could achieve this.
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SAMUEL ANDREYEV is a writer, composer, teacher, and performer whose vocal, chamber, and orchestral compositions are performed around the world. He operated The Expert Press, a small press devoted to contemporary poetry, for several years in Toronto. His first major collection of poems, entitled
Evidence, was released in 2009. Born and raised in Ontario, Andreyev studied composition, musical acoustics, orchestration, electroacoustics, and musical analysis at the Paris Conservatory and (CNSMDP) and IRCAM (Paris). He has lived in France since 2003, where he is currently employed as a Professor of Musical Analysis at Conservatoire de Cambrai (France), and as a freelance composer, writer, and oboist.
