HAMILL, Sam

HAMILL, Sam. American, b. 1943. Genres: Poetry, Literary criticism and history, Translations. Career: Poet, publisher, editor, and translator. Cofounded Copper Canyon Press, 1972-. Port Townsend Leader, columnist, 1990-93; Reed College, University of Alaska, South Utah State University, South Oregon College, Austin College, Trinity College, writer-in-residence, 1974-; public schools, artist-in-residence, 1974-90; Department of Correction in Washington, Alaska, California, writer-in-residence, 1976-88. Publications: POETRY: Heroes of the Teton Mythos, 1973; Petroglyphs, 1975; Uintah Blue (chapbook), 1975; The Calling across Forever, 1976; The Book of Elegaic Geography, 1978; Triada (also known as Sam Hamill's Triada), 1978; animae, 1980; Fatal Pleasure, 1984; The Nootka Rose, 1987; Passport, 1988; A Dragon in the Clouds, 1989; Mandala, 1991; Destination Zero: Poems 1970-1995, 1995; Gratitude, 1999. ESSAYS: At Home in the World, 1980; Basho's Ghost (prose and poetry), 1989; A Poet's Work: The Other Side of Poetry, 1990. EDITOR: Selected Poems of Thomas McGrath, 1988; Collected Poems of Kay Boyle, 1991; T. McGrath, Death Song, 1991; The Erotic Spirit, 1996; The Gift of Tongues, 1996; Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth, 1997. TRANSLATOR: Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu, A Friendship in Poetry, 1993; Love Poems from the Japanese, 1994; The Lotus Lovers, 1985; Night Traveling, 1985; (with the author) J. Kaplinski, The Same Sea in Us All, 1985; Lu Chi, The Art of Writing, 1986, rev. ed., 1991; Catullus Redivivus, 1986; Li T'ai-po, Banished Immortal, 1987; (with the author) Kaplinski, The Wandering Border, 1987; Tu Fu, Facing the Snow, 1988; Basho, Narrow Road to the Interior, 1991; Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing, 1991, rev. ed., 1996; The Infinite Moment, 1992; Midnight Flute, 1994; The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson and Issa, 1997; (with K.M. Gibson) River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko, 1997; Spring of My Life, 1997; The Essential Basho, 1999; Crossing the Yellow River, 2000. Contributor of poetry, essays, and translations to anthologies and literary magazines. Address: c/o Copper Canyon Press, PO Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368, U.S.A.