Reading for Life

Authors

Nicholas Samaras Author

Keywords:

reading, books, authorship, sustenance

Abstract

A brief poem reflects on how an author the reader has never met saves the reader’s life each day through the book held in hand.

Author Biography

Nicholas Samaras

Nicholas Samaras is the author of “American Psalm, World Psalm” (Ashland Poetry Press, 2014). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is currently completing a new book of poetry and a memoir and he serves as the Poetry Editor for The Adirondack Review.

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Published

2015-09-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Maestro

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Samaras, Nicholas. “Reading for Life”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, p. 380, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/544.

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