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Product Description: This is the first accessible contemporary commentary of the twelfth-century treasure of Zen Buddhism, the Blue Cliff Record. Much as Coleman Barks breathed new life into the works of the great Sufi poet Rumi, David Rothenberg now brings us vividly poetic new versions of the enigmatic koans and riddles from this classic Zen Buddhist text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By David Rothenberg (editor) and Yuan-Wu
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9781930337039 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 31, 2010, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This is the first accessible contemporary commentary of the twelfth-century treasure of Zen Buddhism, the Blue Cliff Record.

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Product Description: These poems exhibit the range of Sam Hamill's celebrated practice and vision, from philosophical and discursive elements to the intensely lyrical, from his continuing poems of praise (and elegies) for fellow poets to the clear influence of the Zen classics he has so notably translated...read more
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9781931896405 | Curbstone Pr, September 1, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: These poems exhibit the range of Sam Hamill's celebrated practice and vision, from philosophical and discursive elements to the intensely lyrical, from his continuing poems of praise (and elegies) for fellow poets to the clear influence of the Zen classics he has so notably translated.

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Product Description: Part poetry, part paradox, always stirring and profound, Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching has been inspiring readers since it was written over two thousand years ago. This masterpiece is also one of the most frequently translated books in all of history, in part because the multiple meanings of the Chinese characters make it impossible to translate into a Western language in a strictly literal way...read more
By Sam Hamill (trans), Laozi and Kazuaki Tanahashi (contributor)
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9781590303870 | Shambhala Pubns, March 13, 2007, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Part poetry, part paradox, always stirring and profound, Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching has been inspiring readers since it was written over two thousand years ago.

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Product Description: Avocations collects the best of Sam Hamill's prose on poetry over the last 18 years, presenting insightful readings of Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, Odysseas Elytis, Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, John Logan and many others together with critical commentary on poetry in translation and the practice of poetry in general...read more
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9781597090865 | Red Hen Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Avocations collects the best of Sam Hamill's prose on poetry over the last 18 years, presenting insightful readings of Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, Odysseas Elytis, Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, John Logan and many others together with critical commentary on poetry in translation and the practice of poetry in general.

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Product Description: 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 influence on the secular poetry of the countries in which it has flourished...read more
By Sam Hamill (trans)
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9781570628634 | Shambhala Pubns, November 9, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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.

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9781590304259 | Shambhala Pubns, February 13, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: 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 a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness...read more
By Kaji Aso (illustrator) and Sam Hamill (trans)
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9781570620195 | Shambhala Pubns, November 14, 2006, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Here are more than two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators.
9781570625480 | Min edition (Shambhala Pubns, March 1, 2000), cover price $10.95 | About this edition:      Here are over two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America's premier poet-translators.

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Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.
By Hayden Carruth and Sam Hamill (editor)
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9781556592362 | Copper Canyon Pr, April 1, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.

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The most widely read of the Asian classics, this fresh and poetic translation offers a series of insightful spiritual and philosophical observations on life and human nature. 20,000 first printing.
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9781590300114 | Shambhala Pubns, October 11, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The most widely read of the Asian classics, this fresh and poetic translation offers a series of insightful spiritual and philosophical observations on life and human nature.

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A collection of work from the founding editor of Copper Canyon Press includes both new and previously published poems. Original.
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9781590301845 | Shambhala Pubns, April 12, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of work from the founding editor of Copper Canyon Press includes both new and previously published poems.

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Product Description: The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth’s poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love poems justly celebrated for their eroticism and depth of feeling...read more
By Sam Hamill (editor) and Bradford Morrow (editor)
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9781556592171 | Copper Canyon Pr, September 15, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work.

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9780887484100 | Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $19.95
9780913089071 | Broken Moon Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $10.00

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Product Description: From the passion of sexual desire to the intense longing for spiritual union, this extraordinary collection of poems celebrates the erotic spirit in all of its forms from Egyptian love songs of the 15th century to today's finest poets...read more
By Sam Hamill (editor)
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9781590300053 | Shambhala Pubns, June 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From the passion of sexual desire to the intense longing for spiritual union, this extraordinary collection of poems celebrates the erotic spirit in all of its forms from Egyptian love songs of the 15th century to today's finest poets.
9780877739579 | Shambhala Pubns, November 1, 1995, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: From the passion of sexual desire to the intense longing for spiritual union, this extraordinary collection of poems celebrates the erotic spirit in all of its forms from Egyptian love songs of the 15th century to today's finest poets.

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9781570622342, titled "Erotic Spirit: An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing" | Shambhala Pubns, May 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Explores the spiritual aspects of eros through poems by Sappho, Ovid, Tzu Yeh, Li Po, Izumi Shikibu, Kabir, Anne Bradstreet, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, Gioconda Belli, and Dorianne Laux

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Compiles over 150 poems written and selected to demonstrate opposition to the war in Iraq, war in general, and the administration of George W. Bush.
By Sally Anderson (editor) and Sam Hamill (editor)
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9781560255390 | Nation Books, April 30, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Compiles over 150 poems written and selected to demonstrate opposition to the war in Iraq, war in general, and the administration of George W.

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A collection of verse--drawn from classical, medieval, and modern sources--translated from Japanese covers lines about spirituality, love, lust, and many other themes. 15,000 first printing.
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9781570629761, titled "Love Poems: From the Japanese" | 1 edition (Shambhala Pubns, January 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of verse--drawn from classical, medieval, and modern sources--translated from Japanese covers lines about spirituality, love, lust, and many other themes.

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9780877739821 | Shambhala Pubns, January 1, 1994, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: A heart-stirring collection of Japanese love poems, ranging in tone from deeply erotic to profoundly spiritual--the perfect Valentine's Day gift.

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Product Description: Kenneth Rexroth is a poet of enormous achievement. The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth's poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love poems justly celebrated for their eroticism and depth of feeling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Sam Hamill (editor), Bradford Morrow (editor) and Kenneth Rexroth
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9781556591716 | Copper Canyon Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Kenneth Rexroth is a poet of enormous achievement.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781929918256 | Boa Editions, September 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Influenced by the Chinese and Japanese masters, Hamill’s Dumb Luck affirms his ability to give us back the world and all its vicissitudes.

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Product Description: Sam Hamill reads poems and translations to the traditional and improvised melodies of the Japanese bamboo flute (shakuhachi) played by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel and the thirteen-stringed koto played by Elizabeth Falconer. Thebooklet contains two essays by Hamill: "Listening in the Zen Tradition," and "Editing by Ear...read more
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9781556599996 | Copper Canyon Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Sam Hamill reads poems and translations to the traditional and improvised melodies of the Japanese bamboo flute (shakuhachi) played by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel and the thirteen-stringed koto played by Elizabeth Falconer.

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Product Description: After years of passionate labor, Sam Hamill has translated both familiar and little-known Chinese poems from three millennia (330 BC to the 16th century) to compile the most comprehensive collection of its kind. Crossing the Yellow River:Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese represents a "lifetime's devotion to the classic originals," in the words of W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Sam Hamill (editor)
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9781880238974 | Boa Editions, September 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: After years of passionate labor, Sam Hamill has translated both familiar and little-known Chinese poems from three millennia (330 BC to the 16th century) to compile the most comprehensive collection of its kind.

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Product Description: After years of passionate labor, Sam Hamill has translated both familiar and little-known Chinese poems from three millennia (330 BC to the 16th century) to compile the most comprehensive collection of its kind. Crossing the Yellow River:Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese represents a "lifetime's devotion to the classic originals," in the words of W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Sam Hamill (editor)
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9781880238981 | 1 edition (Boa Editions, September 1, 2000), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: After years of passionate labor, Sam Hamill has translated both familiar and little-known Chinese poems from three millennia (330 BC to the 16th century) to compile the most comprehensive collection of its kind.

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Product Description: Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644–1694)—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 to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Matsuo Basho and Sam Hamill (trans)
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9781570627163 | Shambhala Pubns, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature.

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Product Description: Written in 200 C.E., the Wen Fu is one of the first Chinese works about the use of language. Discussing the joys and problems that face both writer and reader, it is for those who wish to engage the art of letters at its deepest level...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lu Chi, Sam Hamill (trans) and Ji Lu
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9781571314123 | Revised edition (Milkweed Editions, August 1, 2000), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Written in 200 C.

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Product Description:      The 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...read more
By Sam Hamill (trans) and Jerome P. Seaton (trans)
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9781570624575 | Shambhala Pubns, November 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition:      The Chuang Tzu has been translated into English numerous times, but never with the freshness, accessibility, and accuracy of this remarkable rendering.

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Collects translations of Japanese haiku and other works.
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9781570622823 | Shambhala Pubns, March 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Collects translations of Japanese haiku and other works.

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Product Description: Irreverent. This edition of "Selected Poems of Catullus," using handset Centaur type, is limited to 325 signed copies. Letterpressed on Mohawk Superfine and bound in Canson & Fabriano covers. Caveat Emptor
By Sam Hamill (trans)
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9780911287103 | Blue Begonia Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Irreverent.

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Product Description: Poems that "let the song arise as it will," while showing that we must "learn to revise the life."
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9781880238653 | Boa Editions, August 1, 1998, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Poems that "let the song arise as it will," while showing that we must "learn to revise the life.

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