Dumb luck : poems / by Sam Hamill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamill, Sam, 1943-2018.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

102 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2002.

Summary:

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."

Contents:

In Memoriam, Morris Graves 11

Chuang Tzu and the First Noble Truth 13

Essay on Rhyme 15

Another Fool 16

Weasel, Crow, and Coyote on the Dharma Trail 18

The Anger of Su Tung-p'o 20

The New York Poem 22

Poem in the Margins of the Shoyo Roku 24

Awakening 25

First Snow 25

Zuihitsu 26

Fifteen Stitches 30

Sisyphus 33

Lives of a Poet: Saigyo's Solitude 39

All Here 46

R.I.P. 49

Tommy Played the Blues 52

"One Who Studies the Past in Order to Learn the Present Is Fit to Teach." 53

Winter Solstice, 1998 54

"Praise a Fool and Make Him Useful" 55

Below Clay Hill 56

Unsolicited 57

Sonnet on the Thirty-second Anniversary of My Internship as an Editor 58

On Being Asked About Retirement 59

Rising 61

To Bill and Kris 63

Seattle Spring 66

On Being Invited to Write a Poem on the Theme of Shelter 69

Assay 71

Epithalamion for Laura and Michael 72

New Math 73

Upon Receipt of a Gift of Chopsticks 75

Cookin' with Jane 76

Great American Nude 78

Road Hog Sutra 80

Bobbitt, the Trial 81

Bobbitt 82

Seducing the Sparrow 83

Arachnophobia 84

Plain Dumb Luck 86

The Orchid Flower 88

A Woodsplitter's Meditation 90

Colophon 104.

ISBN:

1929918259

OCLC:

50023127