Copper Canyon Press: 155 books

“John Taggart’s poetry is not like music, it is music.”—George OppenIs Music—a major retrospective of an American original—gathers the best poems from John Taggart’s fourteen volumes, ranging from early objectivist experiments and jazz-influenced improvisational pieces to longer...

"A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human."-Pulitzer Prize finalist citation"There is a broad, powerful streak of independence-even disobedience-that runs through Stone's writing and has inspired a great number of women after...

Alternating between the loveable irrascibility and self-mocking humor reminiscent of the poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan), Budbill's poems view the modern world from the viewpoint of a New England hermit-scholar. Remarkable for their generous spirit, accessibility and biting criticism, these poems present...

Familiar to listeners of National Public Radio, David Budbill is beloved by legions for straightforward poems dispatched from his hermitage on Judevine Mountain. Inspired by classical Chinese hermit poets, he follows tradition but cannot escape the complications and struggles of a modern solitary...

"Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort."-Wendell Berry"[Budbill] can be hilarious, as when he gripes, 'What good is my humility / when I am / stuck / in this obscurity?'"-Booklist, starred review"His terse, epigrammatic lyrics are a lilting mirror of...

Emerging in the era of tweets and text-messages comes a new poetic form: textu. The “u” in textu echoes the one in haiku, and also emphasizes the intimate you. A textu poem has a single rule: be exactly 160 characters long. As theme, form, and style are wide opened, a textu reveals new possibilities and poetry in unexpected ways.

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) is Spain’s master poet, the explorer of dream and landscape, and of consciousness below language. Widely regarded as the greatest twentieth century poet who wrote in Spanish, Machado—like his contemporary Rilke—is intensely introspective and meditative. In this...

“This poet brings a sparkling consciousness to the page and an exciting new voice to American poetry.”—Library Journal“Most appealing is Olstein's sensitive, quietly pained and earnest tone, w hich, more than the unusual subject, is the real star of this book.”—Publishers Weekly,...

"Bell's work is a concoction of the surreal and the hyper-real, the hilarious and the devastating."-The New Yorker "One of the most tonally versatile young poets working today."-Boston Review "A contemporary knockout, Bell's poems run the gamut of good: they're...

"Robert Bringhurst may well be the poet we have all been waiting for, one who can reclaim for poetry the dignity, wit, brilliance, and wisdom it has recently appeared to have mislaid. He is without doubt a major poet, not only in the context of Canadian letters, but in that of all writing of our time."-PoetryInspired...

"For James Richardson, poetry is serious and speculative play for both intellect and imagination… [He] makes familiar scenes strange enough to provoke new and startling insights."—National Book Award Judges "James Richardson is . . . a poet who earned his reputation as a...

Brimhall’s poetry has been featured in The New Yorker, Slate, Best American Poetry, and PBS Newshour—so wide public appeal. Fascinating, unique, unexamined subject—an investigation into and narrative of the legends and strange happenings of an Amazon River town, and of the people and...

"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...

"She has, like all good poets, created a music of her own, one suited to her concerns. When denizens of the 22nd century, if we get there, look back on our era and ask how we lived, they will take an interest both in the strangest personalities who gave their concerns verbal form, and in the most...