Product Description: Book by Hamill, Sam

Product Description: Book by Hamill, Sam

Product Description: classic Chinese poetry, tr Sam Hamill

Product Description: PASSPORT, a book of poems by Sam Hamill and paintings by Galen Garwood, won the 1990 Washington State Governor's Award.

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.

Product Description: Hamill, Sam

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

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: Book by Lu Chi

Offers a collection of poems about the pains and pleasures of love

A collection of verse--drawn from classical, medieval, and modern sources--translated from Japanese covers lines about spirituality, love, lust, and many other themes. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by Hamill, Sam

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

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

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.

Seventeenth-century Japanese block prints complement an anthology of 160 five-line poems that represent outstanding examples of the traditional Japanese verse form tanka. Original.

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In linked prose and haiku poetry, a much-loved autobiographical work by a great Japanese haiku poet shuttles between everyday events and the meaning of a life, and includes Japanese versions of some of the author's other poems. Original.