{"product_id":"9781556599996","title":"Heart of Bamboo: Poetry \u0026 Music in the Zen Traditi: A Listener's Guide to the Poetry of Sam Hamill","description":"\u003cbr\u003eSam Hamill reads poems and translations to the traditional and improvised melodies of the Japanese bamboo flute (shakuhachi) played by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel and the thirteen-stringed koto played by Elizabeth Falconer. Thebooklet contains two essays by Hamill: \"Listening in the Zen Tradition,\" and \"Editing by Ear.\" \"The roots of poetry inevitably return us to music,\" Hamill writes. \"All peotry aspires to the conditions of music.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Hamill\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of Copper Canyon Press and \u003ci\u003eThe Gift of Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e, has published a dozen volumes of original poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eDestination Zero: Poems 1970-1995\u003c\/i\u003e (White Pine Press, 1995). He has also published more than a dozen volumes of poetry translated from ancient Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Latin, and three volumes of essays. His anthology exploring thirty centuries of erotic poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Erotic Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e is published by Shambhala.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Andrew F. Mellon Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046762889456,"sku":"9781556599996","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556599996_p0.jpg?v=1763755092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556599996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}