Metta Sama's guest appearances

Metta Sama

New Books Network

New Books in Poetry

91.3fm WYEP: Prosody

Margaret Bashaar

Kevin Prufer

Carl Marcum

Tom Sleigh

Phillipa Chong

James Franco

Walt Whitman

Brian Greene

Jenny Johnson

Jackie Kay

Dana Gioia

Elizabeth Bishop

Terry Tempest Williams

Stephen Burt

James Allen

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As pleasing to the eye as it is to the ear the contents of Meta Sama‘s  le animal and other creatures (Miel Press, 2015) remind us that creativity takes many forms and seeks many tributaries out to the sea of expression. The divisions apparent in this chapbook actually function as bridges from one creative process to another.Just as Sama’s poems take surprising lefts and rights to form a winding map of a given poem’s voice, the entire collection juts out and dips in, in such a way that a pattern is formed. Each deviation from this pattern heightens the experience of the poem while adding additional depth to the whole. This is all to say that Sama’s work is functioning on multiple levels, stimuli absorbed through multiple senses, and textual conversations taking place independent of the text– and you need to read up to keep up.tantrums are failed objects broken over the italicized moon… hold until shatterpoppy or pollen until pixelated or love… the back waxing and waning…the raised eyebrows of clouds… the weary hips of mountains… some waters ripand tear… sometimes lit is just the shake of air pressure… and a stranger’s kneeadjusts to meet youWhat animals do we depend on for survival, for protection, and for love? How do we project the different versions of ourselves on the creatures in our lives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

<a href="https://i2.wp.com/newbooksnetwork.com/poetry/files/2015/10/sama.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>As pleasing to the eye as it is to the ear the contents of <a href="http://www.salem.edu/directory/people/metta-sama-melvin.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Meta Sama</a>‘s <a href="http://newbooksnetwork.com/poetry/wp-admin/post.php?post=613&amp;action=edit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">le animal and other creatures</a> (Miel Press, 2015) remind us that creativity takes many forms and seeks many tributaries out to the sea of expression. The divisions apparent in this chapbook actually function as bridges from one creative process to another. Just as Sama’s poems take surprising lefts and rights to form a winding map of a given poem’s voice, the entire collection juts out and dips in, in such a way that a pattern is formed. Each deviation from this pattern heightens the experience of the poem while adding additional depth to the whole. This is all to say that Sama’s work is functioning on multiple levels, stimuli absorbed through multiple senses, and textual conversations taking place independent of the text– and you need to read up to keep up. tantrums are failed objects broken over the italicized moon… hold until shatter poppy or pollen until pixelated or love… the back waxing and waning… the raised eyebrows of clouds… the weary hips of mountains… some waters rip and tear… sometimes lit is just the shake of air pressure… and a stranger’s knee adjusts to meet you What animals do we depend on for survival, for protection, and for love? How do we project the different versions of ourselves on the creatures in our lives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry</a>

Metta Sama,  “le animal and other creatures” (Miel Press, 2015)

"Metta Sáma, Cave Canem Fellow, is the author of South of Here (New Issues Press, 2005) which was a finalist in the Yale Younger Series Award, the Paris Review Prize, the Stan and Tom Wick First Book Prize, and a finalist for the Kenyon Review Book Prize."

Prosody: Prosody  Metta Sama