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Measured by Stone
by Sam Hamill
"What I like about Sam Hamill's poetry is its not being in the least laid-back and cool. In it, tears, laughter, anger and sorrow contend, all set forth with passionate candor. Hamill's deep intimacy with classical literature of the West and the Orient gives many of his poems a graceful concision--as in the second part of his book, 'Lessons from Thieves.' 'My poetry will very likely die with me,' the poet declares; but that isn't going to happen if Ezra Pound was right and 'In poetry, only emotion endures.'" --X. J. Kennedy
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