Sam Hamill
Sam Hamill has translated more than two dozen books from ancient Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Latin, and Estonian. He has published fourteen volumes of original poetry. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Mellon Fund. He was awarded the Decoración de la Universidad de Carabobo in Venezuela, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from Washington Poets Association, and the PEN American Freedom to Write Award. He cofounded and served as Editor at Copper Canyon Press for thirty-two years and is the Director of Poets Against War.
Titles by Sam Hamill
New and Selected Poems and Translations
Poetry
Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 280 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-59030-184-5 / April 2005
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Sam Hamill is that rare figure whose life is continually in dialogue with the rich and diverse tradition of poetry, whether that dialogue takes the form of translating the work of a poet long dead, writing a poem in celebration of the work of a contemporary poet, or musing on what it means to be...
Buddhism, Zen / Philosophy
Paperback / Shambhala Classics / 112 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-57062-828-3 / July 2001
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This modern classic invites the reader to discover a unique tradition that has come to symbolize wisdom, beauty, and the elegant simplicity of Asian culture. The author celebrates the Way of Tea from its ancient origins in Chinese Taoism to its culmination in the Zen discipline known as the Japanese...
Buddhism, Zen / Gift Books / Philosophy / Shambhala Library
Hardcover / Shambhala Library / 144 pages / 4 1/4 x 6 3/4
ISBN 978-1-59030-083-1 / September 2003
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This modern classic invites the reader to discover a unique tradition that has come to symbolize the wisdom, beauty, and the elegant simplicity of Asian culture. The author celebrates the Way of Tea from its ancient origins in Chinese Taoism to its culmination in the Zen discipline known as the...
An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing
Gift Books / Poetry / Shambhala Library / Special Offers
Hardcover / Shambhala Library / 240 pages / 4 1/4 x 6 3/4
ISBN 978-1-59030-005-3 / May 2003
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Special Offer: Receive Erotic Love Poems from India (retails for $16.95) free when you purchase The Erotic Spirit!
This extraordinary collection of poems from around the worldcovering more than thirty centuriescelebrates the erotic spirit in all its forms, from the passion of sexual desire to the intense longing for spiritual union. Beginning with anonymous Egyptian love songs from the fifteenth...
An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing
Poetry
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 224 pages / 5 x 7 1/4
ISBN 978-1-57062-234-2 / May 1999
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This extraordinary collection of poems—covering thirty centuries of poetry from around the world—celebrates the erotic spirit in all its forms, from the passion of sexual desire to the intense longing for spiritual union. Beginning with anonymous Egyptian love songs from the fifteenth...
Chinese Philosophy / Taoism
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 192 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-57062-457-5 / November 1999
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Chuang Tzu has been translated into English numerous times, but never with the freshness, accessibility, and accuracy of this remarkable rendering. Here the immediacy of Chuang Tzu's language is restored in a idiom that is both completely fresh and true to the original text. This unique...
Gift Books / Poetry / Shambhala Library / Special Offers
Hardcover / Shambhala Library / 160 pages / 4 1/4 x 6 3/4
ISBN 978-1-57062-976-1 / January 2003
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Special Offer: Receive Only Companion (retails for $9.95) free when you purchase Love Poems from the Japanese!
Drawn from classical, medieval, and modern sourcesincluding the imperial collections of the Manyoshu and Kokinshuthe poems in this collection are some of the greatest love poems from the Japanese tradition. The poems range in tone from the spiritual longing of an isolated...
Nature and the Environment / Poetry
Paperback / Shambhala Centaur Editions / 136 pages / 4-1/4 x 5
ISBN 978-0-87773-644-8 / November 2006
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Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes beautiful Japanese-style illustrations by Stephen Addiss.
And Other Writings
Poetry / Travel
Paperback / Shambhala Classics / 224 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-57062-716-3 / September 2000
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Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (16441694)—who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road...
Japanese Poems of Love and Longing
Poetry
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ISBN 978-0-87773-647-9 / November 2006
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Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the 150 poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan’s poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual,...
Japanese Poems of Love and Longing
Expanded Edition
Poetry
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ISBN 978-1-57062-300-4 / November 2006
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Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the one hundred and fifty poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan's poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual, each poem captures a sense of the poignant...
Buddhism, General / Buddhism, Zen / Gift Books / Poetry / Shambhala Library
Hardcover / Shambhala Library / 208 pages / 4 1/4 x 6 3/4
ISBN 978-1-57062-863-4 / November 2004
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A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zenand Zen has also had a profound influence...
Buddhism, General / Buddhism, Zen / Poetry
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 208 pages / 4 1/4 x 6 3/4
ISBN 978-1-59030-425-9 / February 2007
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A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound...
Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko
Poetry / Sale Books
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ISBN 978-1-57062-146-8 / April 1997
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Yosano Akiko (1878-942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than seventy-five books, including twenty volumes of original poetry and the definitive translation into modern Japanese of the Tale of the Genji. Although probably best...
Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets
Buddhism, General / Buddhism, Zen / Poetry
Paperback / Shambhala Centaur Editions / 152 pages / 4-1/4 x 5
ISBN 978-1-57062-019-5 / November 2006
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Here are more than two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators. The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines...