{"title":"Sam Hamill","description":"Sam Hamill was a poet, editor, translator, and essayist. He was the author of more than thirty books including two from BOA Editions: \u003cem\u003eGratitude\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), and \u003cem\u003eDumb Luck\u003c\/em\u003e (2002). He was the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including ones from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, two Washington Governor’s Arts Awards, the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing, and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award for poetry. He co-founded Copper Canyon Press and worked extensively in prisons and with battered women and children. Hamill passed away in April 2018.","products":[{"product_id":"dumb-luck","title":"Dumb Luck","description":"\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by the Chinese and Japanese masters, Hamill's\u003cem\u003e Dumb Luck\u003c\/em\u003e affirms his ability to give us back the world and all its vicissitudes. Here you will find Zen fables, elegies and haiku, bluesy riffs, and poems that celebrate births, marriages, the liberating exile of the poet, as well as verses that present the dumb luck that has peppered the poet's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sam Hamill has reached the catagory of a National Treasure though I doubt he'd like the idea. His Dumb Luck is a marvel, well worth reading and re-reading, then picking it up a month later for a fresh look. Much of his work stays close to you so that you adapt it easily to your memories in the manner of fine experiences.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Jim Harrison \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dumb Luck is a book of gratitudes. Inside these pages is wisdom hard-earned and growing. A black bowl of calm. To read these poems is to drink these words. Drink these words with both hands. They are exquisite renderings of the paradoxes that encircle us.\"\u003cstrong\u003e —Terry Tempest Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnsolicited\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo much ambition \u003cbr\u003eand such futility in \u003cbr\u003eeveryone's poems. \u003cbr\u003eIt's galling and quite lovely \u003cbr\u003ethat we dare write them at all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8418322501,"sku":"1-929918-25-9","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12462884454481,"sku":"1-929918-25-10","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/DumbLuck.jpg?v=1784749194"},{"product_id":"gratitude","title":"Gratitude","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the poem, \"Ars Poetica,\" Sam Hamill writes, \"...the poem cannot, finally, be explained nor\/defined. The true gift\/poetry bestows begins\/and ends with humility\/before the task.\" The poems in \u003cem\u003eGratitude\u003c\/em\u003e are ones of humility as well as thankfulness. Raised in the west and influenced by the great Chinese and Japanese masters, Hamill's poems draw from both traditions returning us \"to that world beyond\/words, which are only\/ a reflection of desire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Art of Literary Exegesis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey argued, the three of them,\u003cbr\u003efor three long hours-- were arguing\u003cbr\u003ewhen I, eventually, went home-- \u003cbr\u003eover the \"meaning\" of the poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was almost morning.\u003cbr\u003eThere were dozens of morning birds,\u003cbr\u003egray doves, and when they sang, \u003cbr\u003etheir meaning and their love \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewere not in words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003ePrice: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418498501,"sku":"1880238659","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/Gratitude.jpeg?v=1527683269"},{"product_id":"crossing-the-yellow-river-three-hundred-poems-from-the-chinese","title":"Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese","description":"\u003ch4\u003eAvailable in limited quantity\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter years of passionate labor, the late Sam Hamill translated both familiar and little-known Chinese poems from three millennia (330 BC to the 16th century) to compile the most comprehensive collection of its kind. \u003cem\u003eCrossing the Yellow River:Three Hundred Poems\u003c\/em\u003e from the Chinese represents a “lifetime’s devotion to the classic originals,” in the words of W. S. Merwin, begun when Hamill was introduced to classical Chinese by Kennth Rexroth and the Beat poets of the late 1950s. Unlike earlier translators of Chinese and Japanese poetry, Hamill attempts to bring the poems into English with their directness and simplicity intact, at the same time attempting to remain true to the poet’s original message. Hamill includes the rarely-translated social poems of Tu Fu, the poems and songs of Tzu Yeh and Li Ch’ing-Chao, and lyrical selections from Li Po, Shih Ching, Wang Wei, Su Tung-p’o and others. Hamill’s introduction provides the most definitive overview to date of aesthetic impulses propelling Chinese poetry and reveals his own reasons for his “lifetime’s devotion.” “I sit at the feet of the great old masters of my tradition not only to be in a position to pass on their many wonderful gifts,” Hamill says, “but to pay homage while in the very act of nourishing, sustaining and enhancing my own life.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a first printing of the first edition. Copies have been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd. since publication and are in fine condition with minimal shelf wearing. Unread. Ideal collector's copy. Actual cover design may vary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2000.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419532037,"sku":"9781880238981","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/CROSSINGYELLOWRIVER.jpeg?v=1527683204"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/hamill.jpg?v=1454351558","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/sam-hamill.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}