Border Songs

by Sam Hamill

"Sam Hamill has reached the category of a National Treasure, though I doubt he'd like the idea." —Jim Harrison "The shape of Sam Hamill's mind is the shape of both a revolutionary and a monk at work. His sacred text is poetry." —Terry Tempest Williams "No one—I mean no one ever—has done the momentous work of presenting poetry better than Sam Hamill... [his poetry] is no less than essential." —Hayden Carruth

62 pages, Paperback

First published June 20, 2012

About the author

Poet, editor, translator, and essayist, Sam Hamill is author of more than thirty books including two from BOA Editions, Gratitude (1998), and Dumb Luck(2002). He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including ones from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, two Washington Governor’s Arts Awards, the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing, and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award for poetry. He co-founded Copper Canyon Press, and has worked extensively in prisons and with battered women and children.

Reviews

[Travel Writing · Rating 5 out of 5]

I stumbled across this slim book of poems and cannot put it down. Sam Hamill is a powerful poet. One of the few that can use such simple wording that has such depth that it took me off guard.

Lovely, lovely, lovely, and hard reading.