{"product_id":"this-art-a-copper-canyon-ares-poetica-anthology-9781556591846","title":"This Art: A Copper Canyon Ares Poetica Anthology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe centuries have changed little in this art,\u003cbr\u003e The subjects are still the same.—Kenneth Rexroth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, \"this urge to making a scrapbook of stars\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery poet, by accident or design, has responded to \"Why poetry\" by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Marvin Bell has written, \"Writing is all and everything.\" This anthology of poems about the art and life of poetry—which draws widely from Copper Canyon’s 30-year backlist of poetry books—proves him right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoets write out of love and longing:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLord, let me live \/ long enough to dare \/a love poem —Cyrus Cassells\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoets confront suffering:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003esince we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.—David Budbill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd poets write in order to live fully: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe all stumble into ourselves \/like this, fitting our fingers to the shape of letters,\/ while the page gallops out of our reach—Rebecca Seiferle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly poetry lasts.—Ho Xuan Huong\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Wiegers \u003c\/b\u003eis the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONTRIBUTORS Included: [box]\u003cbr\u003e Kay Boyle,\u003cbr\u003e Olga Broumas,\u003cbr\u003e Hayden Carruth,\u003cbr\u003e Norman Dubie,\u003cbr\u003e Han Shan,\u003cbr\u003e Jim Harrison,\u003cbr\u003e Carolyn Kizer,\u003cbr\u003e W.S. Merwin,\u003cbr\u003e Jane Miller,\u003cbr\u003e Kenneth Rexroth,\u003cbr\u003e Ruth Stone,\u003cbr\u003e Anna Swir\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359609454935,"sku":"9781556591846","price":13.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556591846.jpg?v=1754125169","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/this-art-a-copper-canyon-ares-poetica-anthology-9781556591846","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}