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Skoog’s poetry is simultaneously minimal and monumental, and his conversational tone invites readers in with open arms

“[Valentine’s] minimalist, elided style is like the quiet concentration of a bank robber trying to crack a safe.” —Publishers Weekly

Cultural brujería, sacrilegious litanies, ritualized births, and letters from hearts and/or brains populate Rachel McKibben¿s world in blud.

Named a “Top Ten Bestseller” by the Poetry Foundation and “highly recommended” in Library Journal’s starred review. Now in paperback.

With her sharp, punchy, sardonic wit, Natalie Shaperös Popular Longing explores sadnesses and subordinations in their myriad forms.

Copper Canyon Press was founded in 1972 with a passion for poetry. One place where that passion found expression was in letterpress broadsides--beautifully designed with hand-set type and ornaments, and printed in small runs on a Chandler & Price platen press. These gorgeous pieces of literary ephemera came into the world for any number of reasons: to celebrate a book's release or mark a publishing milestone, to give as gifts to readers and donors, to distribute at readings and festivals.In the mid-2000s, Copper Canyon began working with other letterpress printers, including Stern & Faye, lone goose press, Expedition Press, and The North Press. Most recently, Copper Canyon collaborated with the School for Visual Concepts in Seattle and The North Press to produce a portfolio of broadsides featuring poetry on the theme of water.This anthology represents the broadsides and prints which are currently available from our inventory. Many are signed by the poet. They all represent the remaining copies of limited editions. And once they're gone, they're gone... though, in all but a few cases, the poem on the broadside can always be found within the Copper Canyon book it calls home.

Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at the top of his imaginative and storytelling powers. Here are the richly metaphorical, imagistically masterful, clear and accessible poems for which he has become widely known. Kooser writes for an audience of everyday readers and believes poets "need to write poetry that doesn't make people feel stupid." Each poem in Red Stilts strives to reveal the complex beauties of the ordinary, of the world that's right under our noses. Right under Kooser's nose is rural America, most specifically the Great Plains, with its isolated villages, struggling economy, hard-working people and multiple beauties that surpass everything wrecked, wrong, or in error.

Marvin is known for bristling, provocative poems on what it means to be a woman and navigating turbulent relationships with both beloved ones and oneself. Marvin, dubbed a "postmodern Plath," can find herself simultaneously violent and tender, sharp and vulnerable, using irony and dark humor just as skillfully as Plath to make fierce observations on relationships and loss. Marvin co-founded VIDA, an organization committed to highlighting gender disparities in the larger landscape of literary publications. The organization is known for the "VIDA Count," an annual gender breakdown of major literary publications and book reviews. Marvin had her first child through IVF in her late 30s. Some poems address the contrasts between how she was parented versus what she wants for her daughter. Marvin explores a plethora of complicated relationships and their statuses-old or reconnected boyfriends, toxic friendships, austere parents, being a single mother. Recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Some poems in Event Horizon refer to or are in conversation with other writers, including "dead poets" like Marianne Moore and Richard Howard, and also more contemporary ones like Sharon Olds and Wallace Stevens. Marvin is an only child, and her father was a CIA intelligence analyst. There are poems about their strained relationship in the book.

In this time of global civil rights movements, Smoking the Bible lends insights to a Black African's immigration experience to the United States, as well as a Black man's current experience living in the US. Abani is an acclaimed international voice-and public speaker-on "humanitarianism, art, ethics, and our shared political responsibility." Each of Abani's TED Talks have nearly 1,000,000 views A prolific and versatile author, Abani is an acclaimed, prize winning novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. His work has been translated into 13 foreign languages. Abani was a political prisoner in Nigeria at various times during 1985 and 1991 In 1991, Abani was put on death row for his anticorruption play "Song of a Broken Flute." He was released in the wake of international pressure (and, probably, bribes).

Chang's most recent book, Obit,was one of the most celebrated poetry books of 2020 Obit won the 2020 Pen/Voelcker Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and was longlisted for the National Book Award Obit and this new book, The Trees Witness Everythingare related in that Chang was writing both simultaneously. Chang books have been named to the New York Times Notable Books List twice. Central themes are nature and human activity Inspired by the work of W.S. Merwin

?Levin's luminous latest reckons with the disorientation of contemporary America. . . . Through the fog of doubt, Levin summons ferocious intellect and musters hard-won clairvoyance.??Publishers Weekly, starred reviewDana Levin's fifth collection is a brave and perceptivecompanion, walking with the reader through the disorientations of personal andcollective transformation. Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how greatchange calls the soul out of the old lyric, ?to be a messenger―to recordwhatever wanted to stream through.? Levin works in a variety of forms, callingon beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions―convened by Levin's ownspun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality―balancing clear-eyedforensics of the past with vatic knowledge of the future. ?So many bodies asoul has to press through: personal, familial, regional, national, global,planetary, cosmic― // 'Now do you know where you are?'?

Nimipuutímpt, the language of the Nez Perce, is a critically endangered language, with fewer than 50 fluent speakers left in the world. Swallowed Light is written in both English and Nimipuutímpt. When asked to come up with a reason why he writes, Wasson said ¿I write because all my storytellers are dead.¿ This poetry is opulent and dreamlike, rich and visceral. The world Wasson creates is a world one cannot help but be drawn into. With this first full-length collection, Wasson is an exciting emerging voice in contemporary poetry. Wasson wrote Swallowed Light from the Japanese village in which he currently lives. He has a complex relationship with the idea of home, telling LitHub ¿I long to earn my way towards some sense of home.¿ Wasson grew up on the Nez Perce reservation, raised mostly by his grandfather. He names Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Eduardo C. Corral, and Sherwin Bitsui as major influences on his poetry.

Soto's book is extremely current and speaks to issues of public discussion, debate, and protest like police brutality, mass incarceration, immigration/border control, transgender rights, gender violence, and U.S. imperialism A perfect fit for the times of "Abolish ICE" and "Defund the police" Soto has deep activist roots in his work on Writers for Migrant Justice/Undocupoets During the UndocuPoets campaign, Soto, Javier Zamora, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo helped make poetry first-book contests accessible to undocumented poets. Soto is an important Latinx, nonbinary voice Accessible, political poetry As part of the queer Latinx punk/grind/hardcore scene in 2000s Los Angeles, Soto was the vocalist and lyricist of a band called The Ambulance Ride. When they lived in Brooklyn in their early twenties, Soto -in the span of one night- met Björk, witnessed a famous drag queen "saying racist shit," and skated home at sunrise in their little black dress. This wonderful Soto quote from Letras Latinas: "I want Angela Davis to blurb my first book when it's ready because I'm writing about the prison industrial complex and she was one of the first prison abolitionists that I read" and '[June Jordan's] "Poem about Police Violence" should be on every poetry syllabus right now and should be sung at every march right now.' They are incredibly ambitious and creative when it comes to promoting their projects while also working for social justice, such as their "Tour to End Queer Youth Homelessness" for their 2016 chapbook, Sad Girl Poems.

Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power. Publishers WeeklyEvery poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.The Washington PostFor Kasischke poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits that it describesLos Angeles Review of BooksLaura Kasischkes long-awaited selected poems presents the breadth of her probing vision that subverts the so-called normal. A lover of fairy tales, Kasischke showcases her command of the symbolic, with a keen attention to sound in her exploration of the everydaywhether reflections on loss or the complicated realities of childhood and family. As literary critic Stephen Burt wrote in Boston Review, The future will not see us by one poet alone.If there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose.This incandescent volume makes the case that Laura Kasischke is one of Americas great poets, and her presence is secure.From "e;Dear Water"e;:I am your lost daughter and, as always, youare listening & fish. ThoughI sift you for sunlight, itruns from me in glistening pins, vanishesin the wavering mapof your ungraspable heart. When Ireach in, youswallow my cold hands again, swallowthe joy they'd hold. . .Laura Kasischke is a poet and novelist whose fiction has been made into several feature-length films. Her book of poems, Space, in Chains, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Chelsea, Michigan.

Acclaimed novelist and poet Saenz creates an emotionally charged poem-cycle that moves beyond vengeance into understanding

First American publication of Syrian poet Maram al-Massri, presented in a bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Winner of Pulitzer Prize in PoetryOne of the best-selling poets of 202040,000 copies sold of original paperbackPhiladelphia using The Tradition for city-wide ¿One Book¿ reading program, the first time in their history they used a poetry titleJericho extremely active, with abundant interviews and eventsSupplementary materials include discussion questions developed in collaboration with the Free Library in Philadelphia and an extended interview