An independent scholar, Bringhurst is known for his award-winning translations of the Haida storytellers from islands in the Pacific Northwest. Named by W.S. Merwin as a 2011 Witter Bynner Award-winner As author of The Elements of Typographic Style, Bringhurst is one of the world’s deep thinkers about words, letterforms, and their presentation. His work has been translated into many languages. Selected Poems gathers the best work from fifteen co ...
Jim Harrison is one of the leading writers in America Along with Ted Kooser, W.S. Merwin, and Pablo Neruda, one of Copper Canyon’s best-selling poets Every Harrison book Copper Canyon publishes is well reviewed and earns book awards and accolades, including multiple “Book of the Year” listings Another sublime Russell Chatham painting on the cover the anchor poem, “Suite to Unreason,” is one of Harrison’s major poems ...
an electrifying, idiosyncratic addition to the ever-growing library of Civil Rights Movement books C.D. Wright is using the tools and techniques of poetry to write a «people's history» of an ugly racist event in her beloved Arkansas The hero of this book is a woman named «V,» who became a life-long mentor to C.D. Wright C.D. Wright examines racist events in her native Arkansas and creates a layered, nuanced, and riveting tribute to a cantak ...
writes a column in American Poetry Review according to Boruch, this was the strangest book she’s ever written, that it “came to me in a trance, almost perfectly formed, and I don’t remember writing it.” widely respected for weird intelligence mystical book about living and dying, with lots of air creatures and water creatures Boruch’s work appears with regularity in The New Yorker ...
"A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor."—Third Coast "There is majestic beauty in these descriptions, and it is clear that McGriff honors this place as a place—not as mere setting, but as a distinct element of his verse."—Gently Read Literature Michael McGriff's second full-length collection explores interior landscapes and illustrates life in a rural community in the Pacific No ...
"Wagoner's words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts."—The Seattle Times In his twenty-fourth book of poetry, David Wagoner reflects on youth, love, regret, and expectation versus reality. Here a master writes at top form, back-dropped by life's curious moments and imagining Jesus as an untidy roommate or considering our final destination in «Beginner's Guide to D ...
"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone—Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating."—James Laughlin Award citation "Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."—The Ne ...
Garrison Keillor loves Budbill’s work and reads his poems regularly on “The Writer’s Almanac” Claims to be a reincarnated Chinese poet We receive more mail about David Budbill than just about any other poet was a former NPR commentator on “All Things Considered” has cultivated a large, engaged readership through his website and social media (which is very impressive for a hermit) ...
