Samuel Ludke

<p>With <em>Samuel Ludke</em> celebrated American poet <strong>Samuel Ludke</strong> turns inward offering a self-titled collection that reads like a map of his own creative landscape. In these pages he strips language to its essential brilliance crafting poems that are at once intimate and immense-rooted in the everyday yet reaching toward the cosmic.</p><p>This self-titled effort is both a culmination and a daring new beginning. Ludke writes of love and solitude of memory's weight and the restless beauty of the American night. His voice-by turns tender fierce and electric-echoes the tradition of American classic poetry while carrying it somewhere wholly his own.</p>