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

Product Description: Written in 200 C.E., the Wen Fu is one of the first Chinese works about the use of language. Discussing the joys and problems that face both writer and reader, it is for those who wish to engage the art of letters at its deepest level...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written in 200 C. E., this is one of the first Chinese works about the use of language and is for those who wish to engage the art of letters at its deepest levels. The Wen Fu discusses the joys and problems that face both writer and reader.

Product Description: Unending Nora is a love story, though not in the ordinary sense. Having retreated to the streets of the east San Fernando Valley amidst an intense heat wave, Nora Yano, who has lived the first 29 years of her life as a devout Christian and an outcast, strikes up a relationship with a stranger and experiences sexual intimacy for the first time...read more

Embodied among travel sketches and portraits of people and places visited during his 1988 stay in Japan on a Japan-U.S. Fellowship, Sam Hamill presents a reading of Japanese poetry beginning with the eighteenth-century anthology, Man'yoshu, tracing the development of the Japanese poetic imagination up through the seventeenth-century poet Bash , the eighteenth-century monk/poet Ry kan, and concluding with Japan's first Mondernist poet, Takamura Kotar . Visiting places in Japan's north country where Bash traveled three hundred years ago, Hamill drawns upon his own zen practice of twenty-five years, and upon his lifelong study of Asian literature, encountering some of Japan's foremost poets, introducing them as he would old friends met along a great journey.Bash 's Ghost is a literary exegesis located in personal memoir, a "deep reading" performed with translucent grace, often poignant and always revealing. It is a true poet's book, a book of the heart.

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Product Description: After years of passionate labor, Sam Hamill has 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. Crossing the Yellow River:Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese represents a "lifetime's devotion to the classic originals," in the words of W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translation. This is a new and revised edition, originally published by BOA Editions in 2000. "In Crossing the Yellow River, Sam Hamill remaps Chinese poetry for our time. Anyone who writes poetry, or who cares about it, must have this book...read more

A collection of the last poems by the American poet which includes such works as Cold Winter Night, A Visit to the House of the Poet, and Always Ahead of Ourselves

A chronological collection of the poet's work which demonstrates his transition from early autobiographical pieces to works that show his interest in Eastern thought and poetry

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Product Description: Influenced by the Chinese and Japanese masters, Hamill’s Dumb Luck 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...read more

Product Description: Explores the spiritual aspects of eros through poems by Sappho, Ovid, Tzu Yeh, Li Po, Izumi Shikibu, Kabir, Anne Bradstreet, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, Gioconda Belli, and Dorianne Laux

Collects translations of Japanese haiku and other works.

An American poet and a leading Chinese scholar collaborate on a fresh, accurate, and accessible translation of the ancient Chinese text, the Chuang Tzu, a compendium of stories and verses that outlines the principles of Zen. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: classic Chinese poetry, tr Sam Hamill

Drawn from more than 150 books and chapbooks, a collection of nearly three hundred poems by established poets and up-and-coming talents spans a diverse group of nations, from Chile to Estonia to India. Simultaneous. IP.

Product Description: Poems that "let the song arise as it will," while showing that we must "learn to revise the life."