Copper Canyon Press: 155 books

2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist"Compass Rose [is] a collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world."-Pulitzer Prize finalist announcement[Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience-astronomy,...

National Book Award FinalistBook of the Year honors from Publishers Weekly"As if hurled from a pitching mound, James Richardson's aphorisms and images approach the reader like fastballs, only to curve at the last second, painting the corners of the reader's mind with wisdom and delight. In By the Numbers...

Name another American poet who has been honored with a limited edition replica of his race-car—“Dan Gerber’s 1965 Shelby R-Model” Gerber is an ordained Zen priest A previous Gerber poetry title received Foreword magazine's “Best Book of the Year” Award Gerber's work...

"Skoog [is] fashioning a poetry that fluctuates and ripples as incessantly as open water." -Boston Review "Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection." -Prairie Schooner "Ed Skoog's poetry is so ambitious it takes my breath away." -The Stranger "Run...

How can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades. Gregory...

"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."-Library JournalIn her eleventh collection-honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry-Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds....

"Jean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings."-The New York Times Book Review Quietly marked by elegy and memory, National Book Award...

“Davis is as good as DeLillo at playing off our internal hunger for meaning against surface senselessness. And Davis catches the surface brilliantly.”—American Book ReviewPunctuated by subversive humor, verbal theatrics, and moments of strange, luminous beauty, Davis’ clear, unsentimental...

"Wright shrinks back from nothing."—The Village Voice "Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."—The New York Times Book Review "Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."—The...

National Book Award finalistAlberto Ríos explains the world not through reason but magic. These poems-set in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizona-are lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, between cultures, between languages, between senses. Drawing upon fable,...

“[Bottoms] makes astounding leaps of both faith and doubt, and does so with insight, honesty, and flashes of anger—all characteristic elements of his work.” —The Southern Review “One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images,...

Jenny George’s debut showcases an astonishing poetic talent, a new voice that is intensely focused, patient, and empathic. The Dream of Reason explores the paradoxical relationships between humans and the animals we imagine, keep, fear, and consume. Titled after Goya’s grotesque bestiary, George’s...

"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman."-Harvard Review "One of our finest and most acclaimed poets."-Booklist "Charged with making the darkness visible, Bell's 'Dead Man' sometimes glows with an eerily illuminating light."-Publishers Weekly Marvin...

Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut collection of poetry that explores multiple logics of perception, association, and interpretation. Navigating the edges where things begin to disappear, the poems inhabit border zones of transformation where memory slides into...