At Home in The World: Essays
Seattle, WA: Jawbone Press, 1981. First paperback edition, simultaneously issued with the hardcover. Paperback. SIGNED and warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page. 191pp. Octavo [20cm]; perfect-bound and sewn in the original pictorial paper wraps. A touch of sunning, toning around the spine. Near Fine. Item #70882
Signed and warmly (hotly, steamily) inscribed by the author in ink on the half-title page ("To ______ | with lust in my heart | & hunger in my eye — | Sam"). The inscription is to a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector, whose name is also neatly written in ink on the front flyleaf.
The colophon states: "At Home in the World is issued in a trade edition of fifteen hundred copies sewn into paper wrappers, and in a handbound cloth edition of one hundred copies bound by Samuel Green. The type is Bembo, designed by Francesco Griffo for Aldus Manutius and first used in 1495 in Cardinal Bembo's De Aetna and was the model for Claud Garamond and others for the following two centuries. The type was set by Irish Setter of Portland, Oregon. The calligraphy [printed on the cover, title page, and chapter headings, etc.] was executed by David Romtvedt."
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. This collection of essays covers a broad range of subjects about which the author stated: "This is not a book about poetry. It won't teach anyone 'how to write.' Rather, it is a document of a struggle to achieve right work, to enjoy a good life, and to share some notions of praise and complaint with trustworthy friends."
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