Bright Soil, Dark Sun by Samuel T. Franklin

$19.99

 

How does before become after? What happens to our dreams? Our disappointments? These stunning poems in Bright Soil, Dark Sun interrogate time and present moments of excavation, of tracing—and sometimes slipping into—the echoes and scars into which we wake each day, “the world and what haunts / beneath it blending in / bitter harmony.” How much of the past—our own or that of others—can we truly understand? And what is the cost of that understanding? Samuel Franklin explores these corporeal labyrinths and lets each poem reveal its own distinct thread. To quote one of his speakers, I am glad “I was there to see its glint.”

–Matthew Woodman, editor of Rabid Oak

 

Franklin writes with the delicate grace of a contemporary Orpheus. In a world not so much post-modern but post-mythology, staring down the failure of Gods, this collection follows those ordinary people caught halfway between cynicism and hope wondering what happens now. Dexterous and touching, every moment of these poems is a delight or a heartbreak or both.

–Amy Kinsman, author of & and editor of Riggwelter

 

 

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Bright Soil, Dark Sun

by Samuel T. Franklin

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-63534-958-0

2019

After earning an MA from Indiana State University, Samuel T. Franklin authored his first poetry collection, The God of Happiness. A 2018 Best of the Net nominee, his poems have appeared in such publications as Riggwelter, Rabid Oak, The Indianapolis Review, and Hoosier Lit. Samuel lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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