Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson From master translator W.S. Merwin comes Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson , the first complete bilingual translation of the entire Buson Kushu ( Buson Collection, 1899),...
Richard Siken Richard Siken's first poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National...
Jeffrey Brown Jeffrey Brown is the chief correspondent for arts, culture, and society at PBS NewsHour . His work has taken him all over the world as he searches for the connections between news and poetry....
Deborah Landau Deborah Landau is the author of The Last Usable Hour and Orchidelirium , which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in Grand Street , The Paris...
C.D. Wright C.D. Wright (1949-2016) published sixteen collections of poetry and prose and served on the faculty at Brown University for decades . Her book One With Others [a little book of her days] was...
Kwame Dawes Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana in 1962 and moved with his family to Jamaica at the age of ten. His first book of poetry Progeny of Air ( Peepal Tree, 1994) won the Forward Poetry Prize for best...
Ted Kooser 13th United States Poet Laureate (2004–2006) Ted Kooser is a retired life insurance executive who lives on acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge....
W.S. Merwin’sGarden Time Reviewed in TheWashington Post
W.S. Merwin’s new book Garden Time was recently highlighted in the “Best Poetry Books of the Month” column in TheWashington Post.
In her review, Elizabeth Lund addresses Merwin’s emerging blindness over the course of Garden Time’s writing: “That alone makes the book noteworthy. What makes it memorable is that Merwin—one of our best poets for decades—addresses the loss with honesty, humanity and a singular poetic vision that allows him—and us—to find beauty even as his sight dims.”
Garden Time is a triumph of senses, and appears just in time for Mr. Merwin’s89th birthday. As he writes in "Pianist in the Dark":
The music is not in the keys
it has never been seen
the notes set out to find
each other
listening for their way
Help Publish The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda's estate has granted Copper Canyon Press exclusive North American publishing rights for a cache of recently discovered poems by the Nobel Laureate. We are calling on our community of poetry readers to help publish the lost poems of Pablo Neruda. Visit LostNerudaPoems.org to make your gift, and reserve your advance copy of this literary treasure.
The collection,Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda, scheduled for release in April of 2016, will be translated by Pulitzer-finalist Forrest Gander, and include full-color, facsimile presentations ofNeruda’shandwritten poems. In addition to Then Come Back, Copper Canyon Press has announced the acquisition of Pablo Neruda'sfirst book of poems, Crepusculario, to be published in 2017. Visit LostNerudaPoems.org for more information.
I will carry this little book around in my mind for the rest of my life, I think: a humble, brave, thoughtful, funny, provocative, juicy, cranky, crackly statement by Wright of what she does, why (and why not), with a little bit of how to boot.#
