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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Knot
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Book of Light: Anniversary Edition
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. FugitiveRefuge
Dynamically pairing traditional and experimental forms, Philip Metres traces ancient and modern migrations in an investigation of the ever-shifting idea of home. In Fugitive/Refuge, Philip Metres follows the journey of his refugee ancestors—from Lebanon to Mexico to the United States—in a vivid exploration of what it means to long for home. A book-length qasida, the collection draws on both ancient traditions and innovative forms—odes and arabics, sonnets and cut-ups, prayers and documentary voicings, heroic couplets and homophonic translations—in order to confront the perils of our age: forced migration, climate change, and toxic nationalism. Fugitive/Refuge pronounces the urge both to remember the past and to forge new poetic forms and ways of being in language. In one section, Metres meditates on the Arabic greeting—ahlan wa sahlan—and asks how older forms of welcome might offer gen
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. [To] The Last [Be] Human
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Things I Didn't Do with this Body
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The Uses of the Body
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Water Look Away: A Novella
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry: Expanded Anniversary Edition
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Hold Your Own
In her fourth collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger further proves herself as a singular poet of astonishing emotional depth and formal range. Hold Your Own is a steadfast search for peace, self acceptance, and pleasure in a world that makes those basic rights an everyday challenge for Black women. Through her signature blend of sharp social critiques and tender lyric supplications, Nikki Wallschlaeger plumbs the depths of emotional experience with fearless agency and exciting poetic experimentation. She brings the public into the personal and vice versa, intimately revealing—like a livewire into the soul—a singular entity, a person, profoundly impacted by family, community, nation, and world.And she does it all through staggeringly diverse approaches to writing. Whether excavating childhood injustices in probing prose sequences or crafting formally energized declarations that could
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. A House Called Tomorrow: 50 Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The Beloved Community
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The Fears
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The End of Michelangelo
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Black Swim
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Diaries of a Terrorist
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Intimacies, Received
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Come Shining: More Poems and Stories from Fifty Years of Copper Canyon Press
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Smoking the Bible
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. a little bump in the earth
Through invention and remembrance, a little bump in the earth creates a black town on a hill—its land, its losses, its living and ancestral dead.Tyree Daye’s a little bump in the earth is an act of invention and remembrance. Through sprawling poems, the town of Youngsville, North Carolina, where Daye''s family has lived for the last 200 years, is reclaimed as “Ritual House.” Here, “every cousin aunt uncle ghost” is welcome. Daye invokes real and imagined people, the ancestral dead, land, snakes, and chickens, to create a black town on a hill. Including dreams, letters, revised rental agreements, and “a little museum in the here & after,” where collaged images appear besides documents from Daye’s ancestors—census records, marriage licenses, and WWII Draft Registration cards—the collection
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Dream Apartment
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. English as a Second Language and Other Poems
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Late Summer Ode
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Red Stilts (paperback)
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Geometry of the Restless Herd
Inverting the pastoral, Sophie Cabot Black uses the keeping of animals and tending of land to interrogate the self and in turn reveal new truths about the social, economic, and political realities of contemporary America.In Geometry of the Restless Herd, Sophie Cabot Black stages a powerful allegory for the social and political realities of our human world. Through hauntingly metaphysical poems set within a sheepherder’s domain, Black conjures fields of harvest and resurrection, of wagers and outcomes—animals to keep, and those destined for slaughter. Here, both singular voices and polyvocal choruses argue through discourse, asking who has the real power, and how are we to survive the violence we do to each other?Black’s scenes are at once oneiric and raw: a squeaking gate wails against neglect; a field receives a runt body; a rac
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Before the Borderless: The Cy Twombly Cycle
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine Translations
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Obit
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Deal: New and Selected Poems
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. West: A Translation
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Indigo
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Snakedoctor
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Passing through a Gate
An essential collection of poetry and prose from an award-winning poet who faced some of the greatest dramas of his time in American history.John Balaban is an extraordinary writer and storyteller whose prize-winning poetry and prose are informed by a love of languages, deep scholarship, hard travel, and a willingness to confront the violence and sufferings of the world. In this essential collection of his work, the best of his prize-winning poems since 1970 are collected in one place, threaded through with essays that link poetry to Balaban’s extensive travels, whether hitchhiking throughout the United States or wandering the countryside of Vietnam—during wartime—to record and translate folk poetry. The result is a remarkable story about a life in poetry. Empathetic, truth-telling, and fiercely perceptive, Passing through a Gate is a literary
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Names and Rivers
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Event Horizon
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Lightning Falls in Love
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. To 2040
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The Butterfly's Burden
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Passion
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The Silk Dragon II
National Book Award-winner Arthur Sze presents a one-of-a-kind anthology that vividly traces Chinese poetry from its centuries-old lyrical traditions up to the present day.In The Silk Dragon II, National Book Award-winning poet Arthur Sze presents a sophisticated vision of the vitality, diversity, and power of the Chinese poetic tradition. Traveling over one and a half millennia, Sze guides readers through a luminous history of verse, from the contemplative insights of fifth century poet Tao Qian, through Tang dynasty poets such as Wang Wei and Du Fu, and into subsequent centuries in which lived such innovative artists as Li Qingzhao and Bada Shanren, among many others. Extending the work from the original 2001 volume, The Silk Dragon II then traces classical Chinese poetry’s eruption into the free verse of the modern and contem
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. What Comes Back
Veering between past and present, between ecological destruction and human violence, What Comes Back is a search for what has vanished and what remains. Javier Peñalosa M.’s What Comes Back is a procession, a journey, a search for a body of water that has disappeared or gone elsewhere. Featured in separate sections, original Spanish poems and Robin Myers’ English translations highlight tender ruminations on loss, memory, and communion. Just as landscapes witness and “preserve what happens along the length of them,” so do people. We watch as travelers navigate realms between the living and the dead, past mountains and dried up rivers to map, trace, and remember the past and future. Several sections, each bearing the title “What Comes Back,” guide readers on a looping voyage where they are “or
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