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Sam Hamill - Sam Hamill authored fourteen volumes of poetry, including Almost Paradise: Selected Poems .

Sam Hamill - Sam Hamill authored fourteen volumes of poetry, including Almost Paradise: Selected Poems & Translations (Shambhala, 2005). Hamill also published four books of literary prose, including A Poet’s Work: The Other Side of Poetry (Broken Moon Press, 1990), and many works of translation, including Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Shambhala Publications, 2005) and Matsuo Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambhala Publications, 1998).

At lunch with Michael Daley, I was reminded that it has been nearly 40 years since D. J. Hamilton introduced us to the poetry of Mahmoud Darweesh and his famous . I've read all of Darweesh that's been translated, published The Butterfly's Burden (a trilogy translated by Fady Joudah), and near the end of his life, was privileged to read with Darweesh in Cairo.

Sam Hamill is an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. In his introduction, Hamill writes an in-depth personal history about Copper Canyon"s path, its commitment to publishing poetry exclusively, and how the press strives to divide its publication list between younger emerging poets, major works by established poets, and poetry in translation.

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.

The poet Sam Hamill, a founder of Copper Canyon Press, at his home in Anacortes, Wash. By Daniel E. Slotnik. Copper Canyon has since released hundreds of new books or fresh translations of work by, among others, the Nobel laureates Pablo Neruda, Rabindranath Tagore and Octavio Paz and the Pulitzer Prize winners Carolyn Kizer, Ted Kooser and W. S. Merwin. Mr. Hamill was a prolific writer himself. He published several books of prose and 17 collections of lyric poetry.

Sam Hamill was born in Utah in 1943 In January 2003, he founded Poets Against War, compiling the work of over 10,000 poets writing against the war in Iraq.

Used with the permission of The Permissions Company, In. on behalf of the author, ww. ermissionscompany. com From: Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems & Translations Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2005 Audio production: 2007, Literaturwerkstatt Berlin. Sam Hamill was born in Utah in 1943. He is the author of fifteen volumes of original poetry including Measured by Stone (Curbstone, 2007) and Almost Paradise: Selected Poems & Translations (Shambhala, 2005). In January 2003, he founded Poets Against War, compiling the work of over 10,000 poets writing against the war in Iraq.

Sam Hamill (May 9, 1943 – April 14, 2018) was an American poet and a co-founder of Copper Canyon Press. Hamill co-founded Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. He is also the initiator of the Poets Against War movement (2003).