Summary: For the past 30 years, Samuel Green has lived off the grid on Waldron Island while pursuing themes that have obsessed him: fidelity to a long and abiding love, the obligations of living in a small community, the demands of right work, the nature of loss and mourning, close observation of the natural world, and the persistent demands of memory. "Stunning, deeply engaging poems [in "All That Might Be Done"] which not only enlarge a reader’s heart, but magically give us our own lives, and the lives we care about, back again." -- Naomi Shihab Nye "Step into Sally Green's crystalline poems and be immersed in long love, winter birds, summer blackberries, the passing of generation to generation. Her clear surfaces let us see deeply; memory, experience, and desire glint back bright as can be." -- Kathleen Flenniken, Washington State Poet Laureate (2012-2013). Samuel Green served as Washington State's first Poet Laureate (2008-2009). A distinguished poet and author of 10 poetry collections, including "The Grace of Necessity," winner of the Washington State Book Award, his work has appeared in numerous publications. He has been visiting poet and poetry teacher at Seattle University for several years. Sally Green runs a small printing press, Brooding Heron Press (previously Jawbone Press) together with her husband, Sam. Sally is the book designer and printer, and Sam is the editor and bookbinder.
