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Copper Canyon Press celebrates its first 50 years of poetry publishing in anticipation of the next 50 years.Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites press staff and board—past and present—to help curate a retrospective. The result is a collection of beloved poems from books spanning half a century: representing Pulitzer Prize-winning books, debut collections, works in translation, and rare books from Copper Canyon’s early days. This book is a tribute to Copper Canyon poets and readers everywhere, because, as Gregory Orr writes, “Certain poems / In an uncertain world— / The ones we cling to: // They bring us back.”

The world's first substantial selection of English translations of this great T'ang Dynasty poet.

This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings.

“David Wagoner’s study of American nostalgias is as eloquent as that of James Wright.” —Harold Bloom

Red Pine is the best-selling and ground-breaking translator of Chinese literature

Drawing upon Navajo traditions and language, Sherwin Bitsui composes a brutal and catastrophic passage through the American Southwest.

James Arthur is among the most intriguing young poets writing today--a world traveler who composes poems entirely in his head

Champion of the body and the universe, Ellen Bass draws us into her world of details and delight.

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.

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.

';Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.'BooklistNow in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's -poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens of ';last poems' that were never published in Jordan's lifetime, these more than six hundred pages overflow with intimate lyricism, elegance, fury, meditative solos, and dazzling vernacular riffs.As Adrienne Rich writes in her introduction, June Jordan ';wanted her readers, listeners, students, to feel their own latent powerof the word, the deed, of their own beauty and intrinsic value.' From ';These Poems': These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready?The cloth edition of Directed by Desire was selected as a Library Journal Poetry Book of the Year and received the Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry. June Jordan taught at UC Berkeley for many years and founded Poetry for the People. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, fiction, and children's books. She was a regular columnist for The Progressive and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and The Nation. After her death in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.