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• Received MFA from the University of Iowa • Author of over thirty books in various genres, including genre fiction, poetry, and criticism • Sold 100,000 with psychological thriller The Church of Dead Girls • Work has been translated into twenty languages • trained in journalism – a reporter for the Detroit News • fellowships from NEA and Guggenheim Foundation; winner of multiple Pushcart Prizes • two of his novels have...
| Автор | Stephen Dobyns |
Here is the definitive collection of poetry from one of America’s best-loved writers—now available in paperback. With the publication of this book, eight volumes of poetry were brought back into print, including the early nature-based lyrics of Plain Song, the explosive Outlyer & Ghazals, and the startling «correspondence» with a dead Russian poet in Letters to Yesenin. Also included is an introduction by Harrison, several previously uncollected poems, and «Geo-Bestiary,»...
| Автор | Jim Harrison |
“John Taggart’s poetry is not like music, it is music.”—George Oppen Is Music—a major retrospective of an American original—gathers the best poems from John Taggart’s fourteen volumes, ranging from early objectivist experiments and jazz-influenced improvisational pieces to longer breathtaking compositions regarded as underground masterpieces. There is a prayerful quality to Taggart’s poetry, rooted in...
| Автор | John Taggart |
– Name another American poet who also had a career as a race-car driver and was honored with a limited edition replica of his car—“Dan Gerber’s 1965 Shelby R-Model.” (Sorry, 2250 models sold out at $90 a pop.) – Dan Gerber is an ordained Zen priest – Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison’s book Braided Creek (Copper Canyon, 2003) is dedicated to Gerber – Gerber’s last book of poems won the Foreword magazine “Best Book of the...
| Автор | Dan Gerber |
Focusing on figures such as Thomas Hardy, Alan Turing, Virginia Woolf, and the World War One poets, <i>The Hardy Tree</i> examines power, oppression and individual rights in ways that reverberate through our lives today. Uniting these themes is the issue of communication—the various methods and codes we use to reach one another. The book is arranged in four sections. The first visits Vladimir Nabokov as a child with alphabet blocks, Alan Turing at eleven writing home from boarding...
| Автор | Linda Bierds |
"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, «because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them.» This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. ...
| Автор | Natalie Diaz |
"Had Dr. Dolittle fathered a prodigious daughter, she might well be behind the bizarre and entertaining personae found on the pages of Lindsay's first-book bestiary…Lindsay's dark-edged, sometimes creepy poems are also imbued with a buoying sense of respect for the different, the unexpected and the challenging.... In work reminiscent of Amy Clampitt and of Albert Goldbarth, Lindsay weaves informed and moving lyric claims around scientific facts, lamenting extinct species or...
| Автор | Sarah Lindsay |
"Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down."—The New York Times Book Review "Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."—Austin American-Statesman Laura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as our most potent memories and dreams. Through...
| Автор | Laura Kasischke |
“Jim Harrison has probed the breadth of human appetites–for food and drink, for art, for sex, for violence and, most significantly, for the great twin engines of love and death. Perhaps no American writer better appreciates those myriad drives; since the publication of his first collection of poetry . . . Harrison has become their poet laureate.”–Salon.comIn Jim Harrison’s new book of poems, birds and humans converse, biographies are fluid, and unknown gods flutter...
| Автор | Jim Harrison |
· Abani is a very popular speaker and presenter active on the reading circuit · Abani’s most recent novel, GraceLand (Picador), won several awards, was reviewed in scores of metro dailies, and was named a “Best Book of the Year” in San Francisco Chronicle and listed as a “Notable Book” in New York Times · Abani was a Barnes and Noble Discover Series Selection · Central section of Hands Washing Water is very imaginative Civil War correspondence...
| Автор | Chris Abani |
"“Wilson’s collection is romantic yet world-weary, bereaved yet fortified―a kindred reflection of the heart in the modern world.” ―<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <i>Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love</i> is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, often through the lens of space: the vagaries of a relationship full of wonder and coldness, separation and exploration. There is the sense of the speaker as a cartographer of familiar spaces, of land he...
| Автор | Keith S. Wilson |
• Skoog is well-connected younger poet • Published in a dizzying range of magazines and journals, from Poetry to Forklift, Ohio • Skoog owns a house in New Orleans, and was out of town when Hurricane Katrina hit. “I was at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference when the storm was gathering,” he notes, “Those were the worst days of my life.” He still owns the house in New Orleans, “to retain a stake in the city.”...
| Автор | Ed Skoog |
The hardback of Elegy Owed is nominated for the 2014 National Book Critic's Circle Award! Winner announced in March 2014. Bob Hicok is considered one of the most prolific poets writing today, publishing hundreds of poems in a wide variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review Hicok has a dual appeal: He once owned his own automotive die design company, so has a real-world perspective and diction. Today he works in academia, though he has no academic...
| Автор | Bob Hicok |
"Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets."—The New York Times "Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence."—Booklist "Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets."—The Washington Post In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable...
| Автор | Norman Dubie |
"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone—Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating."—James Laughlin Award citation "Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."—The New Yorker "These are lithe, seemingly...
| Автор | Michael Dickman |
"Mort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort's poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended."—Library Journal "A one-of-a-kind work of passion and insight."—Midwest Book Review "Mort's style—tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism—recalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska."—Los Angeles Times Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and...
| Автор | Valzhyna Mort |
"Zapruder’s hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales."—Publishers WeeklyMatthew Zapruder is a young poet reinvigorating American letters. In his second collection he engages love, mortality, and life in New York City after 9/11. The title piece, a prose-poem synopsis of an unwritten novel, turns all literary forms upon themselves with savvy and flair, while the elegy cycle...
| Автор | Matthew Zapruder |
"Dean Young challenges the reader to hang on as he jigs from one poetic style to another and sets a wondrous course across a Duchampian landscape."— Chicago Tribune "In Young's work, the big essential questions—mortality, identity, the meaning of life—aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."— The Sunday Star (Toronto)Dean Young escorts his transplanted heart into invigorating poetic territory that...
| Автор | Dean Young |
Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail.This long-awaited collection is soulful work from a remarkable poet, whose poems...
| Автор | Gregory Orr |
• Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2009• Perillo left Random House to join Copper Canyon • Executive Editor Michael Wiegers never accepted a book faster than this one • Perillo is a Macarthur “Genius” Fellowship and has been featured on the cover of American Poetry Review • Perillo is the only poet to have won both the Kate Tufts Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award • The biography is of interest: Perillo was a park ranger in the Cascade Mountains and in her 30s she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis....
| Автор | Lucia Perillo |
"Ursula K. Le Guin, loved by millions for her fantasy and science-fiction novels, ponders life, death and the vast beyond in <i>So Far So Good</i>, an astute, charming collection finished weeks before her death in January, 2018. Fans will recognize some of the motifs here—cats, wind, strong women – as well as her exploration of the intersection between soul and body, the knowable and the unknown. The writing is clear, artful and reverent as Le Guin looks back at key memories and...
| Автор | Урсула Ле Гуин |
"Charming, melancholy, hip."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended."—Library JournalMatthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to «a field of titanium gravestones / growing warmer in the sun.» The title poem is an elegy for the heroes and mentors in the poet's...
| Автор | Matthew Zapruder |
• New poetic short-form emerging from the text and twitter era• First «ebook only» from Copper Canyon Press• Joudah’s first collection, Earth In the Attic, won the Yale Younger Series of Books award in 2007, selected by Louise Gluck.• Fady Joudah is a poet-humanitarian: his work with Doctors Without Borders (especially in Zambia and Darfur) and poetry are inextricable.• Joudah is the award-winner translator of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.• Although the son of two Palestinian refugees,...
| Автор | Fady Joudah |
Copper Canyon Press has long been a supporter of young and emerging poets, and we continue that tradition with Roger Reeves’ highly anticipated first work, King Me.When Reeves was young, he was a Pentecostal preacher. He also hung out in a barbershop, and listened to the «barbershop talk.» From these experiences, he absorbed distinct cadences and ways of speaking.After Reeves left the Pentecostal church, he funneled his verbal energy into poetry.Reeves studied rocket science at Princeton and is...
| Автор | Roger Reeves |