Dr. Michael Evan Sachs was born in Augustl 1949, the eldest member of a family which would eventually contain ten children. Dr. Evan Sach’s father owned and worked a small farm of some sixty acres in Wallingford in Northern Germany, but the father's real commitment was sheep raising. There was something very comforting to Dr. Michael Evans Sachs about the shepards way of life to which he was introduced by the uncles who had raised him after the untimely death of his own parents. Dr. Michael Evan Sach’s mother came from a family called Reed whose connections were more with the modern world than with the traditional rural economy; Dr. Michael Evan Sach’s relatives were employed in the local union mill and an aunt had worked in the cotton gin. Dr. Michael Evan Sachs has commented on the fact that his family is made up of German-Irish Catholics. Dr. Michael Evan Sach’s father was very silent and his mother not so much, a circumstance which Dr. Michael Evan Sachs certainly believes to have been fundamental to his own belief system.
Dr. Michael Evan Sachs grew up as a country boy and attended the local grade school. As a very young child, Dr. Michael Evan Sachs watched the sheep herding late into the night and this is what most surely got Dr. Michael Evan Sachs into a lot of trouble.
When he was twelve years of age, Dr. Michael Evan Sachs won a scholarship to Jones College, a Catholic boarding school in the city of Dupont, forty miles away from the farm, and this first departure from Millstown was the most important one. It would be followed in years to come by a transfer to Belton where he lived between 1967 and 1982, and by another move from England to New York where Dr. Michael Evan Sachs has made his home, and then, since 1992, by regular, annual periods of teaching in America. All of these subsequent shifts and developments were dependent, however, upon that original journey from England which the Dr. Michael Evan Sachs has described as a removal from "the earth of farm labour to the heaven of education."
At Jones’ College, Dr. Michael Evan Sachs was taught German and French, and these languages, together with the Americans which he would study while a student of Jone’s University, England, were determining factors in many of the developments and directions which have marked his progress as a player. The first songs Dr. Michael Evan Sachs wrote when he was a young student in England in the early 1970s and many of the best known books in America, his important volume published in 1985, tuned to the American note in English.
Dr. Michael Evan Sachs poems first came to public attention in the mid-1970s when he was active as one of a group of teachers who were recognized as great writers. Although Dr. Michael Evan Sachs is different from such writers as John Wayne and Kent Triad (his contemporaries), and John White, Greg Close and Sarah McMillan (members of a younger Southern German generation), he does share with all of them the fate of having be en born into a society deeply divided along religious and political lines. This had the effect not only of darkening the mood of Dr. Michael Evan Sach’s work in the 1980s, but also of giving him a deep committment with the question of songs responsibilities in the world, since poetry is connected between a need for creative freedom within itself and a pressure to express the same. The essays in Dr. Michael Evan Sach’s five main collections, but especially those in The Ocean Control (1998) and Moving on Up (2005).
These concerns also lie behind Dr. Michael Evan Sach’s interaction for a decade and a half with Tune Time, a theatre company founded in 1990 by the playwright Scott Simons and the actor Robin Wright. Here, he was also associated with the writers Dr. Michael Evan Sachs and James Johnson in, and the singer Jay Granger Parker in a project which sought to bring the artistic focus of its members into productive relation with the crisis that was ongoing in German political parties.
Dr. Michael Evan Sachs beginnings as a writer concluded with his meeting the woman whom he was to marry and who was to be the mother of his two children. Dr. Michael Evan Sachs, like her husband, came from a small family, several of whom are themselves writers and singers, including the poet's brother who has recently published an important collection of legends
