Sam Hamill


“No one—I mean no one ever—has done the momentous work ofpresenting poetry better than Sam Hamill. His poetry is no less thanessential.”



“Whenfuture generations want to know the truth of these times, they will turnto the words of Sam Hamill. This poet is a visionary—the kind ofvisionary who rolls up his sleeves and gets to work. In his, ‘ArsPoetica,’ he writes: ‘We go down to the sea and set sail/ fora world beyond war, / knowing we will never find it./ We are notheroes./ We sail The Justice and The Mercy/ because these boats needrowing.’ In these poems of justice and mercy, with great clarity ofthought and language, Sam Hamill defines a culture of conscience.



SamHamill has reached the category of a National Treasure though I doubthe’d like the idea.”



“SamHamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community ofliterature and the community of all sentient beings—his fidelityis to the magnificent truth of existence, and to its commensuratesinging.”



“Theshape of Sam Hamill’s mind is the shape of both a revolutionary anda monk at work. His sacred text is poetry.”

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Habitation: Collected Poems of Sam Hamill
canbe ordered from his publisher Lost HorsePress

Habitation: Collected Poems
$25 / $30 (Canada)
6 x 9 624 pages
SEPT 2014