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"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...
"Wagoner's words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts."—The Seattle Times In his twenty-fourth book of poetry, David Wagoner reflects on youth, love, regret, and expectation versus reality. Here a master writes at top form, back-dropped by life's curious moments and imagining Jesus as an untidy roommate or considering...
"A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor."—Third Coast "There is majestic beauty in these descriptions, and it is clear that McGriff honors this place as a place—not as mere setting, but as a distinct element of his verse."—Gently Read Literature Michael McGriff's second full-length collection explores interior landscapes and...
writes a column in American Poetry Review according to Boruch, this was the strangest book she’s ever written, that it “came to me in a trance, almost perfectly formed, and I don’t remember writing it.” widely respected for weird intelligence mystical book about living and dying, with lots of air creatures and water creatures Boruch’s work appears with regularity in The New Yorker
an electrifying, idiosyncratic addition to the ever-growing library of Civil Rights Movement books C.D. Wright is using the tools and techniques of poetry to write a «people's history» of an ugly racist event in her beloved Arkansas The hero of this book is a woman named «V,» who became a life-long mentor to C.D. Wright C.D. Wright examines racist events in her native Arkansas and...
Jim Harrison is one of the leading writers in America Along with Ted Kooser, W.S. Merwin, and Pablo Neruda, one of Copper Canyon’s best-selling poets Every Harrison book Copper Canyon publishes is well reviewed and earns book awards and accolades, including multiple “Book of the Year” listings Another sublime Russell Chatham painting on the cover the anchor poem, “Suite to Unreason,”...
An independent scholar, Bringhurst is known for his award-winning translations of the Haida storytellers from islands in the Pacific Northwest. Named by W.S. Merwin as a 2011 Witter Bynner Award-winner As author of The Elements of Typographic Style, Bringhurst is one of the world’s deep thinkers about words, letterforms, and their presentation. His work has been translated into many...
The New Yorker profiled brothers Michael and Matthew Dickman in “Couplet: A Tale of Twin Poets” (April 6, 2009) Both brothers’s poetry appear regularly in The New Yorker Natives of Portland, Oregon, the brothers logged many hours exploring Powell’s Books, where they acquired an obsession for contemporary poetry. They have a “poet family”—their mother’s step-sister is Sharon...
"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."—Library Journal In her eleventh collection—honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry—Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds. Whether writing elegies, meditations on aging, or an extended...
Heather McHugh is one of the country’s leading poets McHugh’s books earn national publicity, including New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” nods and reviews in major metro dailies, all the trade magazines, and academic journals previous titles have been National Book Award finalists and short-listed for the Pulitzer McHugh is very well connected within the poetry world, including...
"Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."—Booklist "Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible,...
"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...
poetry appears frequently in The New Yorker popular teacher at Princeton smart, approachable, generous work critics have compared him to Rilke and W.S. Merwin Georgia Review called him «one of the most exciting poets writing today.»
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...
"[ Shattered Sonnets ] breathes life into American verse . . . [an] urgent and unrepentant collection."—Rick Moody, Poetry "This convulsive book [ Shattered Sonnets ]—at times funny, at times sick at heart—refracts and defends a wondrous light."—Edward HirschOlena Kalytiak Davis's Shattered Sonnets has earned «cult classic» status and...
Miller has been a mentor to hundreds of poets through her years as a teacher at University of Arizona. The Boston Book Review compares Jane Miller’s “careening, associative” verse to the paintings of Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns. All are inventive, energetic, and risky. Miller was originally a painter. She sees the processes of painting and writing as much the same, but she found...
"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 effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings."—The Believer"My master plan is happiness," writes Michael Dickman in his wonderfully...
"The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."—Kyoto Journal The Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse—considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets—used poetry as his medium of instruction. Near the end of his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on his mountain; Stonehouse delivered to...
Young poet established in the New York poetry scenePopular teacher of poetry at various institutions, including The New School, NYU, ColumbiaJohn Ashbery thinks he is brilliant.
"Zapruder's poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it."—The Boston Review "Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture."—The New York Times "With dynamic, logically complex sentences, Zapruder posits a world that is both extraordinary and refreshingly ordinary."—BOMB Matthew Zapruder's...
Bass writes personal stories to achieve a kind of universality in her poems. The poems in this collection offer a sharp look at everyday experience as a lens for our lives.Bass writes about a broad range and appeals to a wide swath of readers, addressing motherhood, lesbian identity, science, and aging. The specificity in her poems makes these different subjects accessible and appealing across...
The hook to this book is full-flower in a quote from Marianne Boruch, describing her time in the cadaver lab: “The cadaver nevertheless pushed me aside to speak for herself, to give her take on dissection and her long life on the planet before she generously gave her body that those doctors-to-be might learn crucial secrets.”…and another quote: “Some books begin as a dare to the...
"Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."— Austin American-Statesman The Infinitesimals stares directly at illness and death, employing the same highly evocative and symbolic style that earned Laura Kasischke the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Drawing upon her own experiences with...
2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist "Compass Rose [is] a collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world."—Pulitzer Prize finalist announcement [Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience—astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism—and observes their correspondences with an...
One of the «Big Indie Books of Fall 2014»— Publishers Weekly "Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “Readers [of Splitting an Order ] will find ‘characters’ both strange and wonderful, animal or human. There is a sense that...
Belieu is one of the poets that Copper Canyon has been invested in since the beginning of her career Fourth Belieu book published by Copper Canyon Belieu’s debut volume was selected the Washington Post Book World as one of the top 5 poetry books of the year Belieu’s last book was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist Her work has appeared in many major publications including New York...
"To be both visionary and accurate, true to physics and metaphysics at the same time, is rare and puts the poet in some rarefied company. Black, like a few other younger poets, is willing to include all the traditional effects of the lyric poem in his work, but he has set them going in new and lively ways, with the confidence of virtuosity and a belief in the ancient pleasures of pattern...
Perillo's previous books of poems have earned: 100 Notable Books of 2012, The New York Times Book Review. It was one of only 2 poetry titles to make the list. 2013 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Associations Award for Poetry 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Full-page reviews in New York Times Book Review and The Nation Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2009 Winner of the Bobbitt...
"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself."—The New York Times Book Review"Hicok's poems are like boomerangs; they jut out in wild, associative directions, yet find their way back to the root of the matter, often in sincere and heartbreaking ways."—Publishers WeeklyIn Sex...
• Siken is a huge hit on the literary blogopshere and Tumblr.• Much-anticipated second book, almost ten years after his widely-acclaimed Yale Younger first-book award winner, Crush• Siken is loved and admired by the gay community• Siken has a devoted following through his work at the literary magazine spork
"Jean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings."—The New York Times Book Review Quietly marked by elegy and memory, National Book Award winner Jean Valentine's thirteenth book is empowered by her signature clear music and...
Current (and inaugural) Poet Laureate of Arizona Host of «Books & Co.,» a highly-regarded television show featured on a PBS-affiliate station in Arizona Recently elected (2014) as a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets
Jeffrey Brown is an acclaimed PBS journalist and news anchor with a recognizable name, and has garnered media coverage through interviews with recognized artists and poets.Over the course of a year, 90% of all U.S. television households, which are comprised of 217 million people, watch PBS.Specifically, the NewsHour, the program that features Brown, is broadcast by more than 300 PBS stations,...
Landau is a prominent figure in poetry and well-connected within the academic world – she is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.She has close connections with New York-based media contacts (Oprah.com, New York Times)Her last collection was reviewed in nearly all the major trade publications: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist
"O'Driscoll is a quietly exciting, subtly intelligent poet."—Poetry London "O'Driscoll's crisp, unobtrusively musical precision gets to the heart of so many subjects, large and small."—The Guardian "O'Driscoll is a real poet: his lines stay with you, and crop up unbidden in your mind as you go about your day."—Poetry Ireland...
"Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope."—The New Yorker "Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry." —Cosmopolitan "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."—Harvard Review...
Awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to travel across China and visit the graves of 36 Chinese poets. Porter's intention was to place himself within the landscapes where the poets lived and wrote, to translate representative poems, and to present a travel narrative for an American audience. When Porter arrives at a specific site – often with the aid of locals who know the terrain – he...
• 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...
High profile poet whose last book, Gardening in the Dark (Ausable 2004) was chosen by Time Magazine as «One of 7 Poetry Books to Curl Up With.» It also received a rave review in the NY Times and was a NY Times Editor's Choice pick. Kasischke was interviewed on New Letters on the Air, a nationally syndicated public radio literary program in February 2006. Kansas City Star interviewed...
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