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Hamill, Sam, 1943-2018


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    • Sam Patrick
  • Variants

    • Hamill, Sam Patrick, 1943-2018
    • Hamill, S. P. (Sam Patrick), 1943-2018
    • Hamill, Sam P. (Sam Patrick), 1943-2018
    • Hamill, Sam (Sam Patrick), 1943-2018
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  • Sources

    • found: His Heroes of the ... 1973.
    • found: Lu, C. Wen fu of Lu Chi, c1986:CIP t.p. (Sam Hamill) CIP data sheet (b. 5/12/42)
    • found: Almost paradise, 2005:t.p. (Sam Hamill) vita (b. 1943; founding editor of Copper Canyon Press; founded, Poets Against the War)
    • found: Pocket haiku, 2014:ECIP t.p. (translated from Japanese)
    • found: New York times WWW site, viewed May 2, 2018(in obituary published Apr. 26: Sam Hamill; Sam Patrick Hamill; born, by his account, in Northern California to an illiterate carnival fry cook; his date of birth is listed in records as May 9, 1943, his daughter said; as a toddler he was adopted by Samuel Hamill, a poultry farmer, and the former Freeda Empey, a schoolteacher; the couple lived in Holladay, Utah; d. Apr. 14, Anacortes, Wash., aged 74; gave up a wayward life to become an accomplished poet and founder of Copper Canyon Press, a leading nonprofit poetry publisher, and whose impromptu protest before the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 became a cri de coeur for artists nationwide)
    • found: Canadiana database, viewed 12 February 2020(Authorized access point: Hamill, Sam)
    • found: Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 3, 2023:Sam Hamill (Sam Hamill (May 9, 1943 - April 14, 2018) was an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O'Daly and Tree Swenson. He also initiated the Poets Against War movement (2003) in response to the Iraq War. In 2003 Hamill he did a poetic tour in Italy, organised by writer Alessandro Agostinelli. After that tour Hamill published his first italian book A Pisan Canto - Un canto pisano. Hamill was awarded the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Hamill's most recent book, Habitation: Collected Poems, presents some of Hamill's best poems spanning a career of over 40 years.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hamill
    • found: OCLC, viewed Dec. 1, 2023, 2023(access points: Hamill, Sam, 1943-2018; Hamill, Sam; usage: Sam Hamill)
  • LC Classification

    • PS3558.A4235
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    • 1979-09-28: new
    • 2023-12-04: revised
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