Sam Hamill (May 9, 1943 – April 14, 2018) was an American poet and the co-founder of
Copper Canyon Press
Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington.
Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both popu ...
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 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
*''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
Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington.
Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both popu ...
)(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
The University of Washington Press is an American academic publishing house. The organization is a division of the University of Washington, based in Seattle. Although the division functions autonomously, they have worked to assist the universit ...
)
In Anthology
*''Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology'' (2018,
University of Georgia Press
The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is the university press of the University of Georgia, a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia. It is the oldest and la ...
)
*''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