Dumb Luck by Sam Hamill
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.
Sam Hamill is the author of a dozen volumes of original poetry, as well as three collections of essays. He is the Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press, director of the Port Townsend Writers' Conference, and contributing editor at The American Poetry Review.
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Mules of Love
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
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Good Woman
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Tell Me
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
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Fuel
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The City in Which I Love You
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Quilting
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Red Suitcase
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Metallic Seed Bead Splendor
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Book of My Nights
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Next
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The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle
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The Rooster's Wife
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Kingdom Animalia
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Song
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Smoke
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Small Gods of Grief
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Carpathia
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the terrible stories
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You and Yours
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Desire Lines
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Yin
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The Orchard
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Not for Specialists
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Transfer
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Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies
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There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick
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The Vandals
Hamill, Sam: - Sam Hamill is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry, including Destination Zero: Poems 1970- 1995 (1995), DUMB LUCK (2002), Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems and Translations (2005), and Measured by Stone (2007). Influenced by Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, and Hayden Carruth, Hamill presents a model of honest, consistent, undisguised political engagement: he articulates not only a vision of peace with justice, not only his relish for work to achieve that vision, but his sense of the role that poetry can play, as Publishers Weekly noted in its review of Measured by Stone. Hamill has also published several collections of essays and numerous translations. With Bill O'Daly and Tree Swenson, he co-founded the all-poetry Copper Canyon Press in Denver, Colorado. Copper Canyon later joined with the nonprofit arts organization Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington. Hamill was editor-printer for the press from 1972 until 2004.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781929918256 |
| ISBN 10 | 1929918259 |
| Title | Dumb Luck |
| Author | Sam Hamill |
| Series | American Poets Continuum |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Boa Editions Ltd. |
| Year published | 2002-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Poetry) 2003 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |