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Sam Hamill

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Gender Male
Death6 years ago
Date of birth September 5,1943
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Utah
United States
Date of died April 14,2018
DiedWashington
United States
FoundedCopper Canyon Press
Job Translator
Poet
Education University of California, Santa Barbara
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Edited worksThe Poetry of Zen
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Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems and Translations
Habitation: Collected Poems
Destination Zero: Poems, 1970-1995
Measured by stone
After Morning Rain
A Poet's Work: The Other Side of Poetry
Bashō's ghost
Animae
Avocations, On Poets and Poetry
Dumb Luck: Poems
A Dragon in the Clouds: Poems and Translations
Gratitude: Poems
Fatal pleasure
The calling across forever
Nootka Rose: Poems
Heroes of the Teton mythos
Sam Hamill's Triada
Mandala: Poems
Uintah blue
Love Poems from the Japanese
Book of Elegiac Geography
Heart of Bamboo: Poetry and Music in the Zen Tradition
A Pisan canto
DoveTales, an International Journal of the Arts: Contrast
Petroglyphs: Poems
DoveTales, an International Journal of the Arts: Empathy in Art: Embracing the Other
Requiem, a poem
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Sam Hamill Life story


Sam Hamill 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 in response to the Iraq War. In 2003 Hamill he did a poetic tour in Italy, organised by writer Alessandro Agostinelli.

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