Sam Abrams

Sam Abrams (born November 18, 1935) was born in Brooklyn and is an American poet. [ [http://www.marijuana-uses.com/essays/009.html Marijuana Uses - Dr. Lester Grinspoon's Marijuana Uses ] ] [ [http://www.bigbridge.org/issue5/contribs.htm Big Bridge #5 ] ] [ [http://www.pw.org/directory/writer_detail.php?writer_id=10054 Poets & Writers, Inc ] ] Abrams was a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at the University of Athens and currently is Professor Emeritis of Language and Literature in the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology. [http://www.rit.edu/~sxagsl/samcv.html] Abrams is a graduate of James Madison High School (New York).

His works

Books:
* "Barbara". Ferry Press (London, 1966), 1st Edition. 32 pp. Poems, limited edition of 350 copies.
* "The Neglected Walt Whitman". Sam Abrams, Editor. Sixty-five poems, fragments, and three prose pieces by Whitman.
* "The Old Pothead Poems". Louis Armstrong said it, "Marijuana is an assistant, a friend." These poems riff off that theme, a fifty-year-long set of improv-collaborations between two old friends, Miss Mary Jane and her man, Sam. Poems too of a classicist, on familiar terms with Sappho, Archilochus, Horace, Socrates -- regulars in the audience along with Miles, Billy, Bessie,...
* "The Post-American Cultural Congress."
* "Book of Days", with Paul Blackburn

References

External links

* [http://www.rit.edu/~sxagsl/ Abrams' Web page at the Rochester Institute of Technology]

* [http://www.cadillaccicatrix.com/sam_abrams.htm A tribute to Professor Abrams]

* [http://cadillaccicatrix.com/cohn.htm Sam Abrams]

* [http://www.bigbridge.org/issue5/po_sabrams.htm "The Purpose" by Sam Abrams]