A Psalm for Norman Mailer

Authors

tribute poem, elegy, prophetic voice, literary legacy, faith and moral witness

Nicholas Samaras, University of Denver

Nicholas Samaras (PhD, University of Denver) won The Yale Series of Younger Poets Award with his first book, Hands of the Saddlemaker. He is from Patmos, Greece (the “Island of the Apocalypse”), and was brought in exile to be raised in America. Having lived in Greece, England, Wales, Switzerland, Austria, Yugoslavia, Jerusalem, he writes from a place of permanent exile, and specializes in teaching Literature of Exile. Samaras has relocated to West Nyack, New York where he is completing two new poetry manuscripts and a memoir of living underground during his childhood years.