Survive, Survive, Survive - Softcover

Sam Teitel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981992021 ISBN 13: 9780981992020

Publisher: Bicycle Comics, 2011

Synopsis

One of the clearest voices to emerge from the New England slam renaissance of the last decade, Sam Teitel has delivered the apologia for a nervous generation. Survive, Survive, Survive elevates self-doubt to a high (and humorous) art. As a rising star putting out his first "greatest hits" compilation, Sam's retrospection is grounded by his constant worry that he doesn't yet have the necessary distance from his own youthful habits. His insistence that he is still a work in progress is equal parts proclamation and prayer. The confessional poems on illness, dignity, and loss play well against persona poems as Joey Ramone, the Chelsea Hotel, and the City of Boston. Sam's first full-length book is a masterful apology, a persona poem writ large in the voice of his NorthBEAST cohort. In these pages, Sam enters adulthood like a nephew gamely wriggling into a sweatshirt of cynicism he already knows will look completely wrong on him.

About this title

About the Author

Sam Teitel is a poet and performer out of New England. He has been a member of two National Poetry Slam teams: Manchester, New Hampshire in 2008 and Portland, Maine in 2009. He was he assistant coach for the Manchester team in 2010. He has toured across the country reading and leading workshops. He is currently a co-slammaster, host, and heartbreaker at the Slam Free or Die series in Manchester. The loves of his life include poetry, coffee, records, cartoons, old paperbacks, and New Orleans.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bicycle Comics
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981992021
• ISBN 13: 9780981992020
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: William James, Melissa Newman-Evans
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 50
• Editor: Artie Moffa