Sam Hamill
Sam Hamill (May 9, 1943 – April 14, 2018) was an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson.
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He also initiated the Poets Against War movement (2003) in response to the Iraq War. In 2003 Hamill he did a poetic tour in Italy, organised by writer Alessandro Agostinelli. After that tour Hamill published his first italian book A Pisan Canto - Un canto pisano.
Hamill was awarded the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
Hamill's most recent book, Habitation: Collected Poems, presents some of Hamill's best poems spanning a career of over 40 years.
Poetry Books
- Gratitude: Poems [BOA Editions, Ltd. Rochester NY, 1988]
- Facing Snow: Visions of Tu Fu [White Pine Press, 1988] (Sam Hamill, translator)
- Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred T'ang Poems [Tiger Bark Press, 2013] (Sam Hamill, translator)
- Destination Zero: Poems 1970–1995 (1995).
- The Gift of Tongues: Twenty-Five Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press (1996, Copper Canyon Press)(Sam Hamill, editor)
- Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems and Translations (2005).
- Measured by Stone (2007).
- A Pisan Canto - Un canto pisano (2008, Edizioni ETS, Italy)
- Habitation: Collected Poems (2014, University of Washington Press)
In Anthology
- Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018, University of Georgia Press)
- Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other U.S.A. (2008, Smokestack Books)
References
External links
- [1], The Progressive.
- Copper Canyon Press website
- 苏州review - Sam Hamill: A poet’s commitments, Sam Hamill: A poet's commitments, Suzhou Review
- [2], 哈米尔：梦里东方，文化寻根 苏州日报（Suzhou Daily）
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