Eating and Drinking

"A work of consequence--. Silva is a courageous, intelligent, compassionate and unwaveringly analytical poet. He is at once an important lyricist and a keen social critic."
Ron Bayes

Inexorably, "Eating and Drinking" maps the human condition, employing as compass points politics, philosophy, religion and love. At once almost dismissively critical and yet steeped in the anguish of humanity's self-inflicted suffering, it...
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"A work of consequence--. Silva is a courageous, intelligent, compassionate and unwaveringly analytical poet. He is at once an important lyricist and a keen social critic."
Ron Bayes

Inexorably, "Eating and Drinking" maps the human condition, employing as compass points politics, philosophy, religion and love. At once almost dismissively critical and yet steeped in the anguish of humanity's self-inflicted suffering, it speaks to our ironies. Powerfully affecting the reader with poignant imagery, it evokes despair-- and finally hope.

"-- an agonizing scream, a lament for America and other western powers--dark stuff, heavy black wine and bloody meat--. In Sam's world Hypocrisy and Sham are the house band; their music never far from the top of the chart. --underlying it all; a deep, sincere love of humanity."
Laurence F. Hawkins

"Sam Silva's ear for the language and his knowledge of Latin countries have made him one of my favorite poets over the years."
Margaret B. Baddour