A poet's work: the other side of poetry

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Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998 - Literary Criticism - 229 pages
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Contents

The Necessity to Speak
3
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox
15
The Degradation of Money
27
Copyright

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Sam Hamill
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Sam Hamill
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About the author (1998)

Sam Hamill was born in 1942 in Utah. He attended Los Angeles Valley College and the University of California in Santa Barbara. He became a poet, and author who taught inmates in prison. He established Copper Canyon Press with Tree Swenson and other poets. He put out the Sam Hamill Papers which were composed of Hamill's own poetry, his work as editor for other poet's works and records of some of his other activities. He also received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Memorial fellowship. He is author of over 30 books including original poetry and essays and translations from Chinese, Japanese, and Greek. Among his works are Nootka Rose and Dumb Luck.

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TitleA poet's work: the other side of poetry
AuthorSam Hamill
PublisherCarnegie Mellon University Press, 1998
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized1 Apr 2008
ISBN0887482252, 9780887482250
Length229 pages
Subjects ›  › 

American poetry
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetics
Poetry
Poetry / American / General
  
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