MIDNIGHT FLUTE (Shambhala Centaur Editions)

Literature & Fiction

Hamill, Sam

Poetry

Shambhala

Explores the spiritual aspects of eros through poems by Sappho, Ovid, Tzu Yeh, Li Po, Izumi Shikibu, Kabir, Anne Bradstreet, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, Gioconda Belli, and Dorianne Laux

Erotic Spirit

Self-Help

A Poet's Work

History & Criticism

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Embodied among travel sketches and portraits of people and places visited during his 1988 stay in Japan on a Japan-U.S. Fellowship, Sam Hamill presents a reading of Japanese poetry beginning with the eighteenth-century anthology, Man'yoshu, tracing the development of the Japanese poetic imagination up through the seventeenth-century poet Basho, the eighteenth-century monk/poet Ryokan, and concluding with Japan's first Mondernist poet, Takamura Kotaro. Visiting places in Japan's north country where Basho traveled three hundred years ago, Hamill drawns upon his own zen practice of twenty-five years, and upon his lifelong study of Asian literature, encountering some of Japan's foremost poets, introducing them as he would old friends met along a great journey. Basho's Ghost is a literary exegesis located in personal memoir, a "deep reading" performed with translucent grace, often poignant and always revealing. It is a true poet's book, a book of the heart.

Basho's Ghost

Essays & Correspondence

PASSPORT, a book of poems by Sam Hamill and paintings by Galen Garwood, won the 1990 Washington State Governor's Award.

Passport

Arts & Photography

Broken Moon Pr

Essays by turns infuriating and engaging (but never dull) conflate social criticism, literary criticism, and aesthetics, take all the "correct" positions, toot Hamill's own horn a bit too loudly, and for (or because of) all that make great reading. Published by Broken Moon Press, PO Box 24585, Seattle, WA 98124-0585. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

A Poet's Work: The Other Side of Poetry

Embodied among travel sketches and portraits of people and places visited during his 1988 stay in Japan on a Japan-U.S. Fellowship, Sam Hamill presents a reading of Japanese poetry beginning with the eighteenth-century anthology, Man'yoshu, tracing the development of the Japanese poetic imagination up through the seventeenth-century poet Bash , the eighteenth-century monk/poet Ry kan, and concluding with Japan's first Mondernist poet, Takamura Kotar . Visiting places in Japan's north country where Bash traveled three hundred years ago, Hamill drawns upon his own zen practice of twenty-five years, and upon his lifelong study of Asian literature, encountering some of Japan's foremost poets, introducing them as he would old friends met along a great journey.Bash 's Ghost is a literary exegesis located in personal memoir, a "deep reading" performed with translucent grace, often poignant and always revealing. It is a true poet's book, a book of the heart.

Children's Books

Dragon in the Clouds: Poems and Translations

About the Author Poet and translator Sam Hamill was the Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press and is currently the Director for Poets Against War.

Calling Across Forever

Copper Canyon Press

It's hard to believe that a book written around 200 A.D. can so poignantly cut to the quick of writing's agony and ecstasy. Everything that concerns the writer is beautifully addressed, from writer's block ("Sometimes the door remains bolted") to language's limitations ("all their real jewels cannot fill the cup I make of my fingers"), upwards to the writer's re-vision of themes ("a common song sung to a great melody is another way to find beauty") and the joy of creating ("in a single yard of silk, there is infinite space"). This book offers a fresh perspective out of an ancient text.

The Art of Writing: Lu Chi's Wen Fu

World Literature

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MIDNIGHT FLUTE (Shambhala Centaur Editions)

Erotic Spirit

A Poet's Work

Basho's Ghost

Passport

A Poet's Work: The Other Side of Poetry

Basho's Ghost

Dragon in the Clouds: Poems and Translations

Calling Across Forever

The Art of Writing: Lu Chi's Wen Fu