An Apron Full of Beans

"Sam Cornish has a direct and insistent commitment to statement understood by feeling, experience, history, memory. He is a sharpener and a sander and a honer. He makes solid articulations his heart shapes with his mind." - Amiri Baraka "Behind the clean lyric line there stands a man who is harsh and honest in his blackness, gentle and perceptive in his humanity." - Maxine Kumin "Sam Cornish operates as a whole person He hasn't chopped himself down into categories. The fullness of spirit in his poems proves he has somehow managed to survive clear and sane through the everlasting maze of babble and brainwash-print blasting our sensibilities every moment everywhere." - Clarence Major"