“Sam Says, Sam is alive with bird and “potential bird,” a powerful meditation on claiming one’s place and one’s possibilities in the world. Tourjee’s extended series of taut, precise phrases reveals a mind intensely at work, encountering the insufficiencies of the body and the limitations of language and category. Sam Says, Sam is a work of self-creation and self-transformation and as readers, we witness, transfixed, the poet uttering the self into existence, “exposed, “on the verge of it,” and then, triumphantly, “unafraid.”” –Mary-Kim Arnold, author of Litany for the Long Moment
CHAPBOOKS
Body Split: When Tongue Was Muscle, Anomalous Press, April 2016 (out of print) “When Tongue Was Muscle is everything one could ask for in a collection of poetry, which is to say it is an ever-expanding work of art, where blood is not only that, but also what “falls from the nose to prove that inside of you is color.” Read the whole review in Washington City Paper
Ghost, Anomalous Press, March 2013 (out of print) “The worst of all offenses was that I did not even know he was upon me, if he ever was upon me.” Less a book than a a hollowing, a keening, an excavation, an echo chamber, suffused with doubt and dread and longing—haunted and gorgeous.” -Carole Maso
Sam Says, Sam creative audio, featured in Directed Dreamingexperimental theatre and audio zine, volume 1, May 2019 Voice, sounds, recording and mixing by S. Tourjee
Dear Riverbed, Dear Silence, Pulpmouth Issue 3, 2020 Words by S. Tourjee and Ren Evans Video by S. Tourjee, 2017 Sounds by Emily Dix Thomas
Seaspace Landscape, a poetry and sound collaboration with Emily Dix Thomas, Recorded demo available May 2016
With projections by Ida Thistle. Joshua Tree CA 2016.
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