Saprophyte by Hamill Sam (1 results)

Broadside. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Poetry broadside [33cm x 24cm / 13" x 9.5"]; three colors printed on fine cream colored stock. Illustration at top left printed in maroon. Title at top and author attribution at bottom printed in red. Dedication, text of the poem (27 lines, 2 stanzas, 1 column), and the date are all printed in black. Unstated edition/limitation. Dated 30:VIII:1976 (August 30, 1976). Printed dedication is "for Jo." American poet and translator Sam Hamill (1943?2018) was also co-founder of the influential Copper Canyon Press. Over his five-decade career, he published poetry collections, taught in prisons, and founded Poets Against the War, a movement to protest the 2003 Iraq invasion. Copper Canyon Press is a nonprofit, independent poetry publisher that "believes poetry is vital to language and living." The press was founded by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, and other associates in 1972 in Denver, CO, and moved to Port Townsend, WA in 1974.