Love, Death, and Dogs: Posthumous Poems

By Sam Eisenstein

Poetry I Paperback

Sam Eisenstein spotlights tender, unique moments in relationships spanning a lifetime – charting how the impressions we form of others in our youth are confronted by the passing of time: 

The school reunions where 'I expected to see them still large/ with talented life... The fact that they had been gone/ all that time, their sudden absence/ killed all the echoes of their music.' 

This collection brings back the cherished, the loved and departed, presenting them with full colour and uniqueness in tones that are highly personable, intimate and witty. This collection speaks quietly but urgently, hurried by time waits for no one and life's treasures are in the shared moments.

90 poems by a 90 year old American poet on the edge of America, in California – casting a cold eye on life, death, passion and despair.

Sam Eisenstein was born in Bakersfield, California in 1932. He studied Jungian Psychology in Zurich and worked for many years as a teacher and consulting therapist. He taught college in Los Angeles for over fifty years and was the author of many novels and collections of short stories, as well as a poetry collection.