
Sage & Discipline
Samuel Green(Author)
White Pine Press
Will be published approx. on 7. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-945680-90-8 (ISBN)
Description
50 years in the life of a poet who has deliberately lived a life outside the academy, writing poems that come from direct engagement with the natural world, a heritage of working class experience and connection, and a conviction that poetry can play a crucial role in our everyday life, both as readers and creators.
Samuel Green has spent a lifetime writing from the locus of place, grounded in his beloved Pacific Northwest. This gathering of poems from his prior collections lends testimony to that major preoccupation. Whether he is writing about interactions with the environment, with other people, with the often difficult fact vs. myth of family, with wartime service, with loss and grief, Green's work is always immediate and honest.
Samuel Green has spent a lifetime writing from the locus of place, grounded in his beloved Pacific Northwest. This gathering of poems from his prior collections lends testimony to that major preoccupation. Whether he is writing about interactions with the environment, with other people, with the often difficult fact vs. myth of family, with wartime service, with loss and grief, Green's work is always immediate and honest.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Buffalo
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-945680-90-8 (9781945680908)
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Samuel Green has lived off the grid for nearly forty years on an island off the Washington coast. With his wife, Sally, he is co-editor 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. Other honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, an Artist Trust Fellowship in Literature, & a Washington State Book Award in Poetry. In 2018 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Seattle University. From 1966-1970, he was in the U.S. Coast Guard, with service in Vietnam.