Comments and reviews / Samuel Charters

Gerald Locklin writes:
“Your edition of Sam’s book may be the most beautiful (perfect)
limited edition chap I’ve ever seen.  No wonder you wanted to start
your own press, with the total aesthetic control it gives you.
And every chap of mine you’ve ever worked with has been infinitely
enhanced by your artistic contribution.

And Sam’s poems are just right: genuine, clearly heartfelt personal
lyricism, tastefully and economically expressed.  You two really did
each other right with this creation—there is a perfect symmetry of tone,
music, and line in the art, design, and sentences.  I can’t seem to get
away from the words “perfect” and “perfectly.”  Your efforts simply
coincided in a flawlessly visual-musical voice.  Chamber music!

I can only congratulate you without reservation. But I think the two of
you are such superior craftsmen that you must sense what you have
accomplished here.

DOUG HOLDER’S BLOG
Review by Irene Koronas:

Samuel Charters, like Whitman, asserts the mundane,
every day occurrences, the back and forth realities.
You are me. I am you. In his first poem in this small
volume of poetry, he brushes our ears, takes us on an
intimate journey through his writing rooms. The reader
becomes the child, parent, sky, night, “I move slowly
for a last time from one to the other.”

Charters is open; he presents lust in a casual,
dignified manner. “what she presents of her elegant
thigh, slides beneath her swirling skirt.” His poems
open all the windows and doors on a spring day, even
the heat of autumn bearing down over our laden walk,
we sit on his bench and breath.
…
Readers will enjoy the intimacy, the fit in your hand
size, the smooth way in which the poems appear and
gather into a complete song.

Read the full review here

T.L. KRYSS WRITES

“the splendid book “The Poet Sees His Family Sleeping.”
Please convey my thanks to Samuel Charters, for these
exciting and beautiful poems.

Ahh…

Warm wishes, Henry, and may the time shortly to commence
on the island give you the pleasure this book has given me.

T.K. SPLAKE WRITES:

” the samuel charters chapbook, writings and literature is a-one,
like it is so very honest and loving, the poem about the girl on the
bus which beside the title poem was my literary favvvvvvvvorite, oh yeah”