Traveling Companions: Selected Translations. Ancient Greek Poets. Sappho ; Anakreon ; Asklepiados -- Catullus -- Chinese Poets. Lao Tzu ; Chuang Tzu ; Lu Chi ; Wang Wei ; Li Po ; Tu Fu ; Yuan Chen ; Su Tung-p'o ; Li Ch'ing-chao -- Japanese Poets. Saigyō -- Ikkyū ; Bashō ; Buson ; Ryōkan ; Issa ; Yosano Akiko -- Jaan Kaplinski -- Almost Paradise: New And Selected Poems. The Nets -- A Lover's Quarrel -- Gnostology -- A Cold Fire -- To Kevin, Who Mourns -- To John Logan From La Push -- Natural History -- Kah Tai Purgatorio -- Requiem -- George Seferis In Sonora -- Hellenic Triptych -- A Word For Spring -- Reading Seferis -- Old Bones -- Black Marsh Eclogue -- Fire And Water -- A Dragon In The Clouds -- The Gift Of Tongues -- True Illumination Is Habitude -- Historical Romance -- Seated Figure -- Dresden Cattle -- Blue Monody -- Getting It Wrong Again -- Scrutability -- Lifer -- Two Pines -- Mountains And Rivers Without End -- Ten Thousand Sutras -- Kannon -- Destination Zero -- What The Water Knows -- Three Stitches -- To Gary Snyder -- To Adrienne Rich -- After Coltrane's I'll Get By -- Seattle Spring -- One Who Studies The Past ... -- To Hayden Carruth -- Sisyphus -- To Hayden Carruth On His Eightieth Birthday -- To Bill And Kris -- Song And Dance -- Weasel, Crow And Coyote On The Dharma Trail -- Why Crows Are Noisy -- Rising -- Lost In Translation -- To W.s. Merwin -- In Memoriam, Morris Graves -- For Kyra Gray O'daly -- All Here -- Midsummer -- Seducing The Sparrow -- New Math -- The Orchid Flower -- Organic Form -- Little Epic Elegy -- Not Meaning, But Being -- A Woodsplitter's Meditation -- To Amy, Before Her Wedding -- Reply To T'ao Ch'ien -- The Goldfinch -- Strawberry Picking -- To Yoshinaga Sayuri -- The New York Poem -- State Of The Union, 2003 -- Poem In The Margins Of The Shōyō Roku -- Elegy -- Nothing Quite So Cold -- Sheepherder Coffee -- Summer Rain -- On Being Asked About Retirement -- Praise A Fool And Make Him Useful -- A Pisan Canto -- After A Winter Of Grieving. Sam Hamill. English Translations Of Poems In Greek, Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Estonian, And Poems By Sam Hamill.

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Sam Hamill

Shambhala Publications, Incorporated

New Seeds Books

Trumpeter

United States, United States of America

First edition, Boston, 2005

English translations of poems in Greek, Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Estonian, and poems by Sam Hamill.

Sam Hamill is that rare figure whose life is continually in dialogue with the rich and diverse tradition of poetry, whether that dialogue takes the form of translating the work of a poet long dead, writing a poem in celebration of the work of a contemporary poet, or musing on what it means to be a poet himself. A true poet's poetand also the founding editor of Copper Canyon Press, one of the most influential publishers of poetry todayHamill has been part of America's poetry scene for decades and has won numerous prizes and awards for his work. This collection presents the best of Hamill's work from his thirteen books of original poetry and from his numerous critically acclaimed works of translation, as well as a number of new, previously unpublished poems.

A collection of work from the founding editor of Copper Canyon Press includes both new and previously published poems. Original.

2023-06-28