Poems Aloud
Featured Collections
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The Pablo Neruda CollectionCentenary 2004Copper Canyon Press has published seven volumes of late work by the Chilean Nobel Laureate, Pablo Neruda, mostly from among the manuscripts left on his desk at the time of his death in 1973. These poems from Neruda's last days—six collections translated by William O'Daly and one by James Nolan—are openings rather than closures. At the end, Neruda leaves us with another enigmatic beginning. |
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The Marvin Bell CollectionGiving Life to the Dead ManMarvin Bell is a distinguished poet and a devoted educator. Copper Canyon Press has published six volumes of Bell’s poetry, most recently Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000, which reveals the significant development of Bell’s voice over four decades, and Rampant, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “the real thing.” His work ranges from witty to deeply serious, spontaneous to prophetic, and with his innovative Dead Man poems, he has created an entirely new form that has profoundly influenced American poetry. |
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The C.D. Wright CollectionSeeking "One Untranslatable Song"C.D. Wright has published ten volumes of poetry, including Steal Away: Selected and New Poems, the book-length narrative Deepstep Come Shining, and her forthcoming prose-based Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil. With hypnotic grace, her sparse, sensual language weaves us through the landscape of the American South, especially her native rural Arkansas. Her poems often speak of the restless, the poor, or the exiled, and her resolute stylistic explorations have resulted in a prolific body of work that includes numerous interdisciplinary projects. |
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The Ted Kooser CollectionDelight in DiscoveryTed Kooser is the country’s 13th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon, 2004). He has published ten full-length collections of poetry, including Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2003), a collaboration with longtime friend and fellow writer Jim Harrison. With a striking awareness of mortality and an insightful ability to find magic in the ordinary, his accessible verse encourages discovery in the everyday world. |
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