Disturbing the Light

Through the course of numerous books, Samuel Green has established his primary poetic preoccupations, and in Disturbing the Light, he continues to mine them, addressing rituals and work in a small, isolated, rural community; the influence of the past on the present, especially in families; and the nature and evolution of a love that has spanned five decades. Added to these themes is something new: Poems written in response to symptoms of late onset PTSD. Though Green's Coast Guard service in Vietnam ended in the fall of 1969, memories have returned recently in vivid, disturbing details, amplified by the haunting knowledge that civilians in Southeast Asia are still, today, suffering death and injury from unexploded ordnance left over from that war. A powerful collection that reminds us that our past is always with us, even as we attend carefully to the present, Disturbing the Light is a masterwork from a poet at the height of his powers.

About the author

Samuel Green has lived off the grid for nearly forty years on an island off the Washington Coast. With his wife, Sally, he is coeditor of the award-winning Brooding Heron Press. He has been a visiting professor at multiple colleges and universities and was selected as the first Poet Laureate of Washington State.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Green
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780887486609
• ISBN: 978-0-88748-660-9
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 211 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Carnegie Mellon University Pre; Carnegie Mellon University Press Essays (CHICAGO)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies