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. He also initiated the Poets Against War movement (2003) in response to the
Iraq War
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In 2003 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 2014 book ''Habitation: Collected Poems'',
presents some of Hamill's best poems spanning a career of over 40 years.
At the time of his death from complications of
COPD
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in 2018, his final poetry collection ''After Morning Rain'' was about to be published.
Poetry Books
*''Gratitude: Poems''
OA Editions, Ltd. Rochester NY, 1988*''Facing Snow: Visions of Tu Fu''
hite Pine Press, 1988(Sam Hamill, translator)
*''Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred T'ang Poems''
iger 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
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)
*''After Morning Rain'' (2018, Tiger Bark Press)
In Anthology
*''Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology'' (2018,
University of Georgia Press
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)
*''Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other U.S.A.'' (2008, Smokestack Books)
References
External links
The Progressive.
Copper Canyon Press website
Sam Hamill: A poet's commitments, Suzhou Review
哈米尔：梦里东方，文化寻根 苏州日报（Suzhou Daily）
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1943 births
2018 deaths
American male poets
American book publishers (people)
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winners
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
People from Salt Lake County, Utah