Crossing the Yellow River - Sam Hamill, translator
In Crossing the Yellow River, Sam Hamill remaps Chinese poetry for our time. Anyone who writes poetry, or who cares about it, must have this book. It is one of the essential works of our time.
—Jim Harrison
ISBN 09816752982013$24.95SAM HAMILL was born in 1943 and grew up on a Utah farm. After serving four years in the Marine Corps, he attended Los Angeles Valley College and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press and was editor there for 32 years. Among his more than 40 published books are 17 volumes of original poetry, four collections of literary essays, and celebrated translations from Classical Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Latin, Estonian, and Vietnamese. For thirty years, Hamill was associated with the Port Townsend Writers Conference, including ten years as director. In 2003, declining an invitation to the White House, he founded Poets Against the War, collecting 30,000 poems by 26,000 poets, the largest anthology in recorded history. His poetry has been translated into a dozen languages. His collected poems, Habitation, was published by Lost Horse Press in 2014. He died in 2018.
