– Budbill is very popular on NPR's Writer's Almanac, and Garrison Keillor has read his poems two dozen times – A continuation of the mountain hermit schtick from Moment to Moment–a schtick that clearly resonnates with readers as MTM is now in its fifth printing – If you love him, you love him. Booklist does. They selected Moment to Moment as one of the «Ten Best Books of the Year» – We receive more mail about Budbill than any othe ...
– Copper Canyon has been invested in Jane Miller's work for nearly 20 years, and this is the fifth book we've published – In our «Weird Review Quotes» file, Jane has a doozy: «Reading Jane Miller's poetry is like channel-surfing on acid.» – Palace of Pearls was written in a fever-pitch of inspiration, over one summer–"the writing came fast, everyday," she says. What she doesn't say is that it's brilliant. – she ...
· C.D. Wright is one of the country’s “watched” poets · This is C.D.’s first book of prose—unruly and undeniably brilliant. · Title refers to a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before he has had time “to cool” after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder. · A bit memoir, a bit poetics, a tad manifesto ...
The Lichtenberg Figures , winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. “Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning. Throughout this playful and elegiac debut—with its flashes of autobiography, intellection, com ...
– Last season, Ted Kooser co-authored a book with Jim Harrison, Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry, which sold 3500 and got great reviews. – Kooser's recent memoir, Local Wonders, was featured in BookSense 76 and was selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book. – Ted Kooser is featured in Dana Gioia's Can Poetry Matter? ...
• Machado’s popularity is likened to that of Rilke • utterly unique prose supporting the book—preface by John Dos Passos and reminiscence by Juan Ramon Jimenez • Barnstone is a foremost translator-poets bringing into English a dizzying range of work, from Mao to the New Testament • this book represents Barnstone’s first published translations, which appeared in 1959 in England and ...
• First time in English • Nobel laureate Tagore is one of the 20th century’s great poets • In 2001, Tagore’s work entered the public domain, so new, refreshing translations are becoming available. (His work was tightly guarded by Visva Bharati University [the university Tagore created], so much of Tagore’s poetry that exists in English translation is wooden—even Tagore’ ...
Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail.This long-awaited collection is s ...
– each of his poetry volumes with Norton sold in excess of 3000 copies – Rios has an enthusiastic following within the Hispanic community – everyone at CCP is enthusiastic about this book – it is poetry filled with memorable characters that leap off the p ...
