The Animated Universe

The Animated Universe is the long-awaited debut of a seasoned poet who has traveled the world honing her craft and, in the process, settling into the assurance and confidence in her voice. These poems reflect her movement, but above all they speak to her core belief in the power of empathy and compassion as aesthetic markers. In "signs" she writes, "Everywhere I go/ I see the people I love in the faces of strangers, .." Her poems range across three modes of seeing: the ode that reveals her penchant for finding beauty in the unusual, in the ordinary and in the disquieting things of the world; her legends, which are the mythologizing of daily life that only great calypsonians and natural storytellers are able to achieve; and finally, her lyric disrobing of her heart, her soul, and her body--a sacrifice she makes with heart because of her strong conviction that the sharing of self is a healing quality of poetry: "I am a figment/ of God's imagination. / I am more than/ I say. I am./ I am who I am/ becoming."

Author: Samantha Thornhill
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 08/04/2022
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781845235383
ISBN10: 184523538X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
- Poetry | American | African American & Black

About the Author
Samantha Thornhill is a globally-traveled poet, educator, and children's author from the twin island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. After graduating with an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia, Samantha served for a decade as poetry professor at The Juilliard School in New York City.