Sam Hamill
Sam Hamill lives in Port Townsend, Washington, where he is editor of Copper Canyon Press. His books include A Dragon in the Clouds and Basho’s Ghost.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Necessity To Speak
I see them every day, the wounded women in the supermarket or in the bookstore, the children beaten to a whimper until all life has grayed in them. I’ve learned to recognize Fear’s signature scrawled across their faces, the way one learns to recognize a man who walks with a “prison shuffle.”
February 1991
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