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Hamill, Sam, author. 1943-2018

Gratitude : poems / by Sam Hamill.

First edition.

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd 1998.

©1998

134, [2] pages ; 24 cm.

"Here is an astonishing range of technique and purpose: crisp illuminating lines in the eastern tradition, with epithalamions for newlyweds, verse letters and elegies for old friends - all in the unmistakable voice of one poet, one of the most versatile and accomplished of his generation."--Jacket.

American poets continuum series ; v. 48

American poetry -- 20th century.

Poetry.

BOA Editions, publisher.

"Gratitude, poems by Sam Hamill, has been typeset using Monotype Dante fonts and Rococo Ornaments, and issued in a first edition of 2,250 copies, of which 2,200 trade copies are bound in paper. Twenty-six copies, bound in quarter cloth and French papers over boards, lettered A-Z, and signed by the poet, are for sale to the trade. An additional twenty-four copies, also bound in quarter cloth and French papers over boards, numbered I-XXIV, signed by the poet, and including a poem in holograph, are reserved by the publisher for presentation purposes"--Colophon.

Preface: Ars Poetica -- The Fool: A Letter to Paul Hansen -- After Po Chu-i -- Three Worlds -- The Art of Literary Exegesis -- The Art of Literary Translation -- Anti-Muse -- After Yuan Chen -- Salutation, Late Autumn, 1991 -- A Warbler's Song in the Dusk -- Two Pines -- After Han Yu -- Ten Thousand Mirrors of Happiness -- By the Rapids -- Lives of a Poet: Two Songs for Takamura Kotaro -- Along the Way -- Talking to Myself -- Lives of a Poet: A Letter to Adrienne Rich -- Passing Through -- After Coltrane's "I'll Get By" -- Ish Province Worksong -- The Oracle at Sunrise -- Moon-Watching Pavilion -- Midsummer -- Lives of a Poet: To Kenneth Rexroth -- Lives of a Poet: A Letter to Gary Snyder -- Lives of a Poet: Two Letters to Denise Levertov -- Little Epic Elegy -- The Nets -- Hitomaro's Song -- Many Happy Returns -- Dolphin Song -- Shunga -- Fire and Water -- Lives of a Poet: Ikkyu's Song of the Dream Garden -- Midaregami -- A Thousand and One Tales -- Epithalamion for Bill and Kris -- Shiawase (I) -- Shiawase (II) -- To Eron on Her Thirty-second Birthday -- For Kyra Gray O'Daly -- Bidding Farewell to My Stepson -- Corinthian Suns: A Letter to Olga Broumas -- Lives of a Poet: From Ryokan -- Elegy: Kawamura Yoichi (1932-1995) -- The End of Winter: Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996) -- Heart of Bamboo: Two Letters to Christopher Yohmei Blasdel -- The Lotus Sutra Revisited: Two Letters to Keida Yusuke -- Lives of a Poet: Four Letters to Hayden Carruth.

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