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Title

Habitation : collected poems / Sam Hamill.

Author

Hamill, Sam

Publication

Sandpoint, Idaho : Lost Horse Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

604 pages; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: A Letter to Han Shan-tzu -- Escalante -- Sundown in Zion -- Song for a Sandpainter -- Wyoming -- The Great Divide -- Pilgrimage to Zion -- Black Hills -- Letter to Logan from La Push -- Summer in Chimacum -- Port Townsend -- Sonnet for Kathy & Bill -- First Snow -- Letter to Ransom in Utah -- Letter to Ransom in Raymond -- Letter to Robert Hedin -- Letter to O'Daly -- Inheriting Sitka, Alaska -- At Tom's Place, at Twilight -- The Burning of the Idaho Hotel -- For Wages -- The Beauty of Penance in Deseret -- At the Railhead, Greybull, Wyoming -- Still Life in Paragonah -- Man in the Landscape -- First Psalm -- Second Psalm -- Third Psalm -- Fourth Psalm -- 21:111:78 -- To Live and Die in Portland -- Penumbra -- Otto Empey -- Mae Empey -- In Sepia -- Prolegomenon -- The Egg -- Dead Letter (I) -- Natural History -- A Cold Fire -- Canto Amor -- Dead Letter (II) -- For the Anniversary of My Birth -- The View from Helicon
• To Kenneth Rexroth -- Reading Seferis -- To Kevin, Who Mourns -- Poeta del Pueblo -- The End of the Road from Nantucket -- In the City of Roses -- Many Happy Returns -- Gnostology -- October Frost -- Requiem -- The Cartographer's Wedding -- Anybody's Genius -- Homage to Trakl -- Loyalty: A Letter -- The Oracle at Sunrise -- The Journey -- In Gemini -- The Body of Summer -- Pastoral -- A Rose for Solitude -- George Seferis in Sonora -- Between You and Me -- In the Company of Men -- A Word for Spring -- Kah Tai Purgatorio -- To a Blue Heron -- Nihil Obstat -- Helenic Triptych -- Cloistered -- A Lover's Quarrel -- "True Illumination Is Habitude" -- Homage -- Scrutability -- At Rexroth's Grave -- Getting It Wrong Again -- Conscientious Objection -- The Black Angel -- Naming the Beast -- Counting the Bodies in Peacetime -- Friend -- Unforgiven -- With the Gift of a Nootka Rose -- September Sowing -- Venus Ascending -- A Photograph of K.P. Kavafis -- Classical Tragedy -- Psyche and Eros -- Listen, Ianni
• Historical Romance -- Passport -- The Measure -- Kali -- Contrapuntal -- Sacrificial -- Elegy -- Near Thessaloniki -- Hermes Rising -- Sheep to Slaughter -- Icarus -- Aun -- Animus Mundi -- Seated Figure -- Nagasaki Horses -- The Common Shore -- Night Animals -- Dresden Cattle -- Treblinka Lights -- The Bridge -- Three Ages, Three Worlds -- Black Marsh Eclogue -- Moon Watching Pavilion -- Tammuz in the Garden -- A Dragon in the Clouds -- Watching the Waves -- The Uta Mound -- Yung-chia Reconsidered -- Organic Form -- Hakatusu's Pine -- Song of the Dream Garden -- Mountains and Rivers without End -- Fire and Water -- Ten Thousand Sutras -- Kannon -- Mandala -- The Gift of Tongues -- Masks -- Blue Monody -- Yellow Ribbons, Madness, Victory -- A Leaf -- Abstract -- Destination Zero -- Old Bones -- Another Duffer -- Cooking -- Jubilate Sutra -- What the Water Knows -- Three Worlds -- The Art of Literary Exegesis -- The Art of Literary Translation -- Anti-Muse -- Salutation, Late Autumn, 1991 -- After Han Yu
• Ten Thousand Mirrors of Happiness -- Lives of a Poet: Two Songs for Takamura Kotaro -- Talking to Myself -- Lives of a Poet: A Letter to Adrienne Rich -- Passing Through -- After Coltrane's "I'll Get By" -- Midsummer -- Lives of a Poet: A Letter to Gary Snyder -- Lives of a Poet: Two Letters to Denise Levertov -- Little Epic Elegy -- The Nets -- Dolphin Song -- Shunga -- Fire and Water -- A Thousand and One Tales -- Epithalamion for Bill and Kris -- Shiawase (I) -- Shiawase (II) -- To Eron on Her Thirty-Second Birthday -- For Kyra Gray O'Daly -- Bidding Farewell to My Stepson -- Corinthian Suns: A Letter to Olga Broumas -- Elegy -- The End of Winter -- Heart of Bamboo: Two Letters to Christopher Yohmei Blasdel -- The Lotus Sutra Revisited: Two Letters to Yusuke Keida -- Lives of a Poet: Four Letters to Hayden Carruth -- In Memoriam, Morris Graves -- Chuang Tzu and the First Noble Truth -- Essay on Rhyme -- Another Fool -- Awakening -- Zuihitsu -- Stitches -- Sisyphus -- All Here -- R.I.P. -- Tommy Played the Blues -- "One Who Studies the Past in Order to Learn the Present Is Fit to Teach"
• Winter Solstice, 1998 -- "Praise a Fool and Make Him Useful" -- Below Clay Hill -- Sonnet on the Thirty-second Anniversary of My Internship as an Editor -- On Being Asked About Retirement -- Rising -- To Bill and Kris -- Seattle Spring -- On Being Invited to Write a Poem on the Theme of Shelter -- New Math -- Cookin' with Jane -- Great American Nude -- Road Hog Sutra -- Seducing the Sparrow -- Plain Dumb Luck -- The Orchid Flower -- A Woodsplitter's Meditation -- Not Meaning, But Being -- The Goldfinch -- Strawberry Picking -- To Yoshinara Sayuri -- The New York Poem -- Elegy -- Sheepherder Coffee -- Summer Rain -- State of the Union -- A Pisan Canto -- After a Winter of Grieving -- Eyes Wide Open -- America, Mon Amour -- With Ilaria and Francesca in Piacenza -- Arguing with Milosz in Vilnius -- On the Death of James Oscco Annamaria -- Canto Amor -- Taos, 1958 -- Testament of the Thief -- Lessons from Thieves -- Nine Gates -- At the Japanese Exhibition -- A Word in Farsi -- A Question Answered -- Solstice -- Gazing Down the Fairway, I Think of Po Chu-i -- A Mountain -- In Memoriam, Nancy Foster
• To Quincy Troupe -- To Doris Thurston on Her Eightieth Birthday -- Bidding Farewell to a Friend -- Strolling Calle Florida -- On the Third Anniversary of the Ongoing War in Iraq -- Poem on His Sixty-Third Birthday -- Ars Poetica -- Homeland Security -- Cairo Qasidah -- To William Slater -- To My Muse -- What's Mine -- Salutation -- Another Love Song -- Southern Stars -- Children of the Marketplace -- Body Count -- To Salah Al Hamdani, November, 2008 -- Mythologos -- Sweet Samsara -- The Descent -- A Visitation -- Elegy in San Miguel -- Border Song -- The Road to Rama -- Ritsos among the Asphodels -- On Being Invited to Submit Poems "Written in the Manner of the Ancient Chinese Mountain Recluse Poets" -- To Elisa Ortega -- Bittersweet -- Not Going to Hanoi -- True Peace -- The Girl in Mandalay -- On the Anniversary of Her Death -- Edible Earth.

ISBN

• 9780991146550 (alk. paper)
• 0991146557 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2014017311

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library