Copper Canyon Press / Literary collections

Alight

by Fady Joudah – Copper Canyon Press (July 03, 2013)

Joudah, an ER physician who worked with Doctors Without Borders, is a master storyteller who refuses to dramatize or withhold

Little Stranger

by Lisa Olstein – Copper Canyon Press (July 03, 2013)

At once familiar and utterly strange, Little Stranger renders the world in delicate and essential balance.

Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet

by Christian Wiman – Copper Canyon Press (June 14, 2013)

An intimate first book of personal essays and incisive commentary from the editor of Poetry.

Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems

by Kwame Dawes & Matthew Shenoda – Copper Canyon Press (May 14, 2013)

“The miracle of empathy,” Kwame Dawes once said in an interview, “is the ultimate aim of my writing.”

Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems

by Tom Hennen & Jim Harrison – Copper Canyon Press (May 04, 2013)

"Tom Hennen's poetry is work of the highest order... I'm reminded again how deeply the earth inhabits us.” —Jim Harrison

Greenhouses, Lighthouses

by Tung-Hui Hu – Copper Canyon Press (May 04, 2013)

A poetic and provocative gesture toward cinematography, Tung-Hui Hu presents the ungraspable among memory, film, and history's tantalizing ephemera

Sailing through Cassiopeia

by Dan Gerber – Copper Canyon Press (April 23, 2013)

"Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets." —Annie Dillard

Letters to Borges

by Stephen Kuusisto – Copper Canyon Press (April 23, 2013)

“[Kuusisto] is a powerful writer with a musical ear for language and a gift for emotional candor.” —New York Times

Fall Higher

by Dean Young – Copper Canyon Press (December 18, 2012)

"A long, breathless thank-you for life's seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness and joy.” —Los Angeles Times

Charms Against Lightning

by James Arthur – Copper Canyon Press (December 04, 2012)

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

Bender: New and Selected Poems

by Dean Young – Copper Canyon Press (October 02, 2012)

"Only a rare poet can make a reader simultaneously cry and laugh this way.” —Publishers Weekly

Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry

by Dean Rader – Copper Canyon Press (February 28, 2017)

"By writing honestly about the difficulties of self-representation, Rader represents himself as a writer who cares deeply about his audience and his craft." —ZYZZYVA

"Rader's poetry asks how to be an artist...

Tumbling Toward the End

by David Budbill – Copper Canyon Press (March 24, 2017)

"Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort." —Wendell Berry

"David Budbill is a no-nonsense, free-range sage." —Dana Jennings, The New York Times

"Looking at the reality closely,...

Our Andromeda

by Brenda Shaughnessy – Copper Canyon Press (December 11, 2012)

"A heady, infectious celebration."—The New Yorker

"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."—Harvard Review

Brenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection...

One Man's Dark

by Maurice Manning – Copper Canyon Press (January 15, 2017)

"Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim." —New York Times Book Review

"Manning's genius—his truly staggering genius—is in his ability to put this ancient question into a true American...

The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All

by C.D. Wright – Copper Canyon Press (December 14, 2015)

"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...

Run the Red Lights

by Ed Skoog – Copper Canyon Press (January 13, 2017)

Skoog’s poetry is simultaneously minimal and monumental, and his conversational tone invites readers in with open arms