Copper
Canyon
Press
Report to
Friends
2011–2012
LETTER FROM THE MANAGEMENT TEAM
Dear Readers:
Forty years ago, Copper Canyon Press was founded out of an abiding love for poetry
and its possibilities. Our founders couldn’t have imagined what might become of their
creation. Today, sitting in the old cannon foundry at Fort Worden State Park, we look
at a wall of shelves filled with the tremendous library of poetry books published by the
Press. As we do so, we imagine all those books, those authors, those lines and stanzas
in conversation with one another.
Just as the Press champions the distinct voices of poets from around the globe, it
is also the steward of a larger conversation, one which strongly asserts by its very
existence that poetry is vital and necessary and—as Hayden Carruth says—“makes us
who we are.”
In the past decade alone that “making” has brought Copper Canyon Press two
Pulitzer Prizes, two of our poets have been named US poet laureate, and numerous
others have been nominated for—and earned—nearly every major distinction for
poetry, including the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.
In the coming year, we look forward to publishing some of the most exciting work
in our history, including new collections by Ted Kooser, W.S. Merwin, and C.D.
Wright; first books by Roger Reeves and Malachi Black; and the landmark Collected
Poems of Frank Stanford.
From the letterpressed editions of our early days to award-winning trade-book
designs, Copper Canyon now stands at the forefront of publishing in e-book formats.
Along the way, we’ve offered Pablo Neruda and Ho Xuan Huong to American
audiences and have brought the majority of W.S. Merwin’s and Hayden Carruth’s
work back into print.
We like to imagine these poets in conversation with a poet they never met, like Neruda
and Merwin with Taha Muhammad Ali or Dennis O’Driscoll, or C.D. Wright talking
craft with Hayden Carruth, or Lucia Perillo going to town with Han Shan, or Ruth
Stone flirting with Ben Lerner and Dean Young.
These conversations and flirtations do in fact happen—alongside many more—
whenever someone reads one of our books. They happen in the minds, senses, and
imaginations of the many readers who have held our books and been touched by the
poems therein. We all add to these conversations and give life to a book through the
intimate act of reading.
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For four decades, readers like you have accepted the gift offered by the Press’s founders.
You’ve cheered us on, as readers and donors, and you’ve challenged us to dwell in
possibilities and contradictions and generosity. You’ve created the conversation.
We are humbled and grateful for your help in making it possible.
Michael Wiegers
Executive Editor
Joseph Bednarik
Sales & Marketing Director
George Knotek
Development Director
FROM JIM HARRISON, Songs of Unreason
Arts
It’s better to start walking before you’re born.
As with dancing you have to learn the steps
and after that free-form can be best.
Stevens said technique is the proof of seriousness,
though the grace of a Maserati is limited to itself.
There is a human wildness held beneath the skin
that finds all barriers brutishly unbearable.
I can’t walk in the shoes cobbled for me.
They weren’t devised by poets but by shoemakers.
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AWARD-WINNING POETS
Lucia Perillo
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New
Wing of the Mall
Half costume jewel, half parasite, you stood
swaying to the music of cash registers in the distance
while a helicopter chewed the linings
of the clouds above the clear-cuts.
And I forgave the pollen count
while cabbage moths teased up my hair
before your flowers fell apart when they
turned into seeds. How resigned you were
to your oblivion, unlistening to the cumuli
as they sweep past. And soon those gusts
will mill you, when the backhoe comes
to dredge your roots, but that is not
what most impends, as the chopper descends
to the hospital roof so that somebody’s heart
can be massaged back into its old habits.
Mine went a little haywire
at the crest of the road, on whose other side
you lay in blossom.
As if your purpose were to defibrillate me
with a thousand electrodes,
one volt each.
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Hayden
Carruth
Valzhyna
Mort
Last Poems
Collected Body
“Carruth, like Whitman,
like Chaucer, is large—he
contains multitudes. Dip
into his work anywhere, and
there is life—and death—as
stirringly felt and cogitated
as in some vast, Tolstoyan
novel.”—Booklist, starred review
“Carruth always makes me laugh, or cry, or
both.”—Sandra Bozarth, Lincoln, CA; reader
response card
Lucia Perillo
On the Spectrum of
Possible Deaths
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS
CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE
BOOK OF 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional
reflection.”—New York Times
“Deft irony and wit, fusing form and theme.
A strong voice with important things to say,
especially about the way we live today and the
costs of all we do to the planet.”—Laurie Greer,
Washington, DC; reader response card
LANNAN LITERARY
SELECTION
“A risen star of the
international poetry
world.”—Irish Times
“Lovely poetry and interesting sensual jacket
cover.”—Patrice Winters, San Marcos, TX; reader
response card
Dan
Gerber
Sailing
through
Cassiopeia
SOCIETY OF MIDLAND
AUTHORS AWARD FOR
POETRY
“Gerber has a gentle
touch and an unaffected, articulate voice that
can be smart, funny, wise—sometimes all at the
same time.”—Library Journal
“Gives richness to our being. Makes my soul
yearn for compassion and forgiveness.”—Carol
Ward, Weatherford, TX; reader response card
Tung-Hui Hu
Greenhouses,
Lighthouses
LANNAN LITERARY SELECTION
JAMES D. PHELAN AWARD
“Tung-Hui Hu makes magic
of anything he takes in hand,
whether it’s architectural
theory or cyberspace or poetry.”—Linda
Gregerson, Ann Arbor, MI; reader response card
“Greenhouses, Lighthouses is a provocative
gesture toward cinematography . . . A radiant
offering for our times.”—citation, James D.
Phelan Award
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AWARD-WINNING POETS
Tom Hennen
Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems
Introduction by Jim Harrison with an afterword by Thomas R. Smith
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“It’s hard to believe that this American master—and I don’t use those words lightly—has been hidden
right under our noses for decades.”—Dana Jennings, New York Times
“These poems give voice to things of the earth and sky unlike any I have ever read. A sure voice that
speaks to the heart of earth, of sky.”—Brian Marsh, Belchertown, MA; reader response card
“Linked into the insistent present, Hennen sees and draws miracles out of the everyday. He is a
tightrope walker. This book is a treasure to be savored over and over!”—Jay Fier, Morris, MN; reader
response card
Words in the Wild
Words are not common outdoors. Do you know how long it takes to find a word
among the brush and tall bluestem? You can look all morning and the word you need
will be miles away resting under a windmill, in the sun. When you do catch the word
it is rare and alive and does not want to be put into a pen or tossed inside a poem made
large as a house. It needs to be left with open places around it, trusted enough not to be
staked down. And still it sometimes runs off in the night.
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Stephen
Kuusisto
Letters to Borges
“His work imagines a
realm between sight and
sound composed of the
sensory stimuli we all know
and recognize, but split,
fractured, and juxtaposed
to inhabit the mind’s ear
of his readers, a feat unique to this truly gifted
poet.”—Booklist
“Beautifully lucid and thoughtful.”—Andrea
Potos, Madison, WI; reader response card
David
Wagoner
After the Point of
No Return
2013 PATERSON POETRY PRIZE
FINALIST
“Wagoner knows how to
describe a scene with such precision that
readers feel both its immediacy and its larger
import. Points of no return come throughout
this rich, vital collection.”—Seattle Times
“Wagoner’s writing is wonderful, his poetry
sublime. Nature, life, and experiences are
reflected back exquisitely, offering insight and
hope. Aging emboldens and enlivens Wagoner’s
poetry.”—Fred Jamison, Wake Forest, NC; reader
response card
John Yau
Further Adventures
in Monochrome
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS
NOTABLE BOOK OF 2012
Matthew
Dickman
and
Michael
Dickman
50 American
Plays
LANNAN LITERARY SELECTION
POETRY FOUNDATION BESTSELLER
“Excitement of exploration, of wonder… fun,
loose romp through wild territory”—Rumpus
“An emphatically irreverent tour of America’s
backyards, guided by a Hamlet-obsessed
Kenneth Koch, a tug-o’-warring Fred Astaire, the
homeless, Social Security, and all fifty states
themselves… [a] histrionic wonder of a genrebreaking book.”—Colin McDonald, Common Good
Books
“I am always looking for poetry that is ‘out
there’ and fearless. Poetry that’s also fun is a
bonus. The Dickmans have all that.”—Deirdre
Laidlaw, Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada; reader
response card
David
Budbill
Happy Life
POETRY FOUNDATION
BESTSELLER
“Budbill is a treasure.
His work reflects
a deep and rare
understanding of
the ancient Chinese
poets.”—Charles
Rossiter, Oak Park, IL; reader response card
“These associative and often
sound-driven collages, many
of which implicitly explore
themes of dislocation and
assimilation, are propelled by Yau’s explosive
imagination, in whose glorious starbursts no
end of surprise and delight may be found.”—
Huffington Post
“It blew me away… Mr. Yau is a splendid poet…
I look forward to each new publication”—James
Graham, Hutchinson, MN; reader response card
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AWARD-WINNING POETS
Brenda Shaughnessy
Our Andromeda
GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE INTERNATIONAL SHORTLIST
LIBRARY JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR
NEW YORKER AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS
“Shaughnessy’s emotionally charged and gorgeously composed third volume of poems, ‘Our
Andromeda,’ moves me line by line and poem by poem.”—New York Times
“Extraordinary… Describing this as ‘poetry’ does not do justice to the sky-bending and genretransforming effects of this work.”—Tim Beyer, Rochester, MN; reader response card
Miracles
I spent the whole day
crying and writing, until
they became the same,
as when the planet covers the sun
with all its might and still
I can see it, or when one dead
body gives its heart
to a name on a list. A match.
A light. Sailing for a signal
flare behind me for another to find.
A scratch on the page
is a supernatural act, one twisting
fire out of water, blood out of stone.
We can read us. We are not alone.
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Cyrus
Cassells
Robert
Bringhurst
The Crossed-Out
Swastika
Selected Poems
“In The Crossed-Out
Swastika, Cyrus Cassells sets
out to accomplish a genuine
synthesis, to know the
nature of the powers which
thwart our human evolution, and to create a voice which can account
for them and comprehend them… his efforts
achieve greater numinosity and deeper feeling
than ever before.”—Li-Young Lee
“Haunting, disturbing; searingly, painfully,
beautiful.”—William Griffin, Rome, GA; reader
response card
Michael
McGriff
Home Burial
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY REVIEW
PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKLY POEM
“Bringhurst’s work is
work of sensation as
much as of intellect,
a sensation as deeply
rooted in the actual…
His poetry leads back to
the mythic landscapes
and villages of pre-modern humanity, ‘where the
stones have not stopped breathing and the light
is still alive.’”—Times of London
David
Bottoms
We Almost
Disappear
“Rich, heartbreaking,
startling—Bottoms’
best yet.”—Paige
Sullivan, Decatur, GA;
reader response card
POETRY FOUNDATION
BESTSELLER
“Language that manages to be simultaneously
spare, cinematic and tactile. It’s that language
that keeps you reading along, transfixed.”—New
York Times
“At times deeply haunting and ghostlike, and
at other times incredibly introspective and cutto-the-bone personal, Home Burial is one of the
best books of poetry I’ve read this year.”
—Brandon Rush, Newton, KS; reader response
card
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AWARD-WINNING POETS
Dean Young
Bender: New and Selected Poems
LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST OF 2012
“After 10 books over 20-odd years, Young has become one of our most imitated poets: his jocular
jumps from topic to topic, debts to Surrealist dream-logic, mixture of postmodern oddity, stand-up
comedy and weighty pathos.”—Publishers Weekly
“When I read his poems to my small children they bay at the night light, speak in tongues, purr
and fall fast asleep. Thank you, Dean Young!”—Peter Jay Shippy, Jamaica Plain, MA; reader
response card
Changing Genres
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
jar of octopus, cuckoo’s cry, 5-7-5,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping,
another 75 of what you think staring out
a window. I don’t care about the plot
although I suppose there will have to be one,
the usual separation of the lovers, turbulent
seas, danger of decommission in spite
of constant war, time in gulps and glitches
passing, squibs of threnody, a fallen nest,
speckled eggs somehow uncrushed, the sled
outracing the wolves on the steppes, the huge
glittering ball where all that matters
is a kiss at the end of a dark hall.
At dawn the officers ride back to the garrison,
one without a glove, the entire last chapter
about a necklace that couldn’t be worn
inherited by a great-niece
along with the love letters bound in silk.
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Marianne
Boruch
Deborah
Landau
The Book of
Hours
The Last
Usable Hour
2012 KINGSLEY TUFTS
POETRY AWARD
“Boruch refuses to see more than there is in
things—but her patience, her willingness to wait
for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to
see what is there with a jeweler’s sense of facet
and flaw.”—Poetry
W.S. Di Piero
Nitro Nights
2012 RUTH LILLY POETRY
PRIZE FROM THE POETRY
FOUNDATION
“[Di Piero] has caught our
American voices in all their
glory and banality, our
diction and our inflections, even when we’re
talking to ourselves. By some magic—let’s
call it inspiration—he knows us even when
there’s almost nothing to know.”—Philip
Levine, Ploughshares
Marvin Bell
Vertigo: The
Living Dead Man
Poems
2012 KESSLER POETRY BOOK
AWARD FINALIST
“With the rhythms of a
modern-day prophet, Bell
creates a universe of one, recasting Whitman’s
‘Song of Myself’ to mirror the present age.”—
Publishers Weekly
“The poems of Landau’s
stunning second
collection are dark,
urgent, sexy, deeply
sad, and, above all, powerful.”—Publishers
Weekly, starred review
“Few writers—poets and otherwise—carry such
a strong voice throughout a book as Deborah
Landau has. Throughout various cadences
and images, the same feelings emerge:
emptiness, ghastliness, the caring of some great
unknown.”—Brennan Peel, Houston, TX: reader
response card
Jim
Harrison
Songs of
Unreason
LOS ANGELES TIMES
BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
2012 MICHIGAN
NOTABLE BOOK
HIGH PLAINS BOOK
AWARD
POETRY FOUNDATION BESTSELLER
“Damaged, beautiful, and uncompromisingly
intelligent.”—Michael Dickman, Princeton, NJ;
reader response card
“A brilliant experiment in poetic form and postWestern philosophy. Harrison hones spaces
and words down to their sharp and depthless
cores.”—Christopher Schaberg, New Orleans, LA;
reader response card
“The flow of ideas and images can be so intense,
it is mesmerizing… a state of amazement and
awe.”—Griffin and Patricia Bates, Easton, MD;
reader response card
“There are golden nuggets gleaming from the
steam of Hades that is Marvin Bell, no picks,
nothing superfluous.”—Mars Catlin, Boulder, CO;
reader response card
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E-BOOKS
Through a generous grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation,
and with tremendous technical support from Constellation and
Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, Copper Canyon is proud
to offer e-books on many platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple
iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo eReaders, Sony Reader, and more.
Copper Canyon invests in our e-books the same sort of attention to
detail and design that we brought to our first letterpress editions.
We hand-edit each e-book to reproduce well on a variety of e-reading
devices. The result is that these handcrafted e-books faithfully reflect
the intentions of the poets, while providing an exceptional experience
for readers.
More books are being added every week! A selection of available titles
includes:
Chris Abani
Hands Washing Water
Sanctificum
Natalie Diaz
When My Brother
Was an Aztec
James Arthur
Charms Against
Lightning
Matthew and
Michael Dickman
50 American Plays
Michael Dickman
The End of the West
Flies
Stephen Dobyns
Winter’s Journey
Dan Gerber
A Primer on Parallel
Lives
Sailing through
Cassiopeia
Jim Harrison
Braided Creek
In Search of Small Gods
Letters to Yesenin
Saving Daylight
The Shape of the Journey
Songs of Unreason
Tom Hennen
Darkness Sticks to
Everything
Bob Hicok
Elegy Owed
Tung-Hui Hu
Greenhouses, Lighthouses
Willis Barnstone
Border of a Dream
and Antonio Machado
Ellen Bass
The Human Line
Marvin Bell
Mars Being Red
Vertigo: The Living Dead
Man Poems
Stephen Berg
Ikkyu: Crow with
No Mouth
Marianne Boruch
The Book of Hours
David Budbill
Happy Life
Moment to Moment
While We’ve Still Got Feet
Jon Davis
Preliminary Report
Kwame Dawes
Duppy Conqueror
Madeline DeFrees
Blue Dusk
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June Jordan
Directed by Desire
Charles Simic
Monster Loves His
Labyrinth
Fady Joudah
Alight
Textu
Ed Skoog
Mister Skylight
Rough Day
Lilies Without
Space, In Chains
Ruth Stone
What Love Comes To
Arthur Sze
The Gingko Light
Quipu
The Redshifting Web
Silk Dragon
Chase Twitchell
Horses Where the Answers
Should Have Been
David Wagoner
After the Point of
No Return
Michael Wiegers
This Art
Chris Wiman
Ambition and Survival
C.D. Wright
Cooling Time
Deepstep Come Shining
One Big Self
One With Others
Steal Away
Dean Young
Bender
Fall Higher
Laura Kasischke
Ted Kooser
Braided Creek
Delights & Shadows
Stephen Kuusisto
Letters to Borges
Only Bread, Only Light
Ben Lerner
Angle of Yaw
The Lichtenberg Figures
Mean Free Path
Sarah Lindsay
Twigs & Knucklebones
Michael McGriff
Home Burial
Heather McHugh
Upgraded to Serious
Jane Miller
A Palace of Pearls
Wherever You Lay
Your Head
Lisa Olstein
Little Stranger
Lost Alphabet
Radio Crackling,
Radio Gone
Gregory Orr
The Caged Owl
Concerning the Book
That Is the Body of the
Beloved
How Beautiful the
Beloved
Orpheus & Eurydice
Lucia Perillo
Inseminating the
Elephant
On the Spectrum of
Possible Deaths
Brenda
Shaughnessy
Human Dark with Sugar
Our Andromeda
Matthew Zapruder Come On All You Ghosts
The Pajamaist
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TRANSLATIONS
W.S. Merwin
Selected Translations
“Were Merwin not one of America’s most admired poets (his honors include two Pulitzers and a
term as U.S. poet laureate) he would still be as famous as translators get: for more than 50 years
and for more than 50 volumes, Merwin has rendered, sensitively and carefully, canonical poets such
as Mandelstam and Neruda, traditional songs and sayings from Peru to Madagascar, Latin satire,
medieval romance, Japanese haiku, and more. This third selection from Merwin’s translations (the
first since 1978) might double as an introduction to poetry from the non–English–speaking world.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Jean Follain
Shoelace Retied
When the evening launches
its mass of clouds
one sees the weed pile
send up its smoke
flowers grow in the gullies
there is a bit of day left
at that moment a boy
in iron-gray overalls
bends over the rut
to tie his shoelace
not weary of life
without a trace of absence.
“Beautiful. Fantastic scope of literary translations. In short, the book is a gem and will become a
classic.”—Luba Zakharov, Azusa, CA; reader response card
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Lidija
Dimkovska
Sung
Po-jen
pH Neutral
History
Guide to
Capturing a
Plum Blossom
Translated from
the Macedonian by
Ljubica Arsovska and
Peggy Reid
BTBA (BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD) FINALIST
2013
Translated by Red Pine
“A breath of fresh air. Lovely for a spring
season.”—Kate Jones, Redmond, WA; reader
response card
The “mind roams freely.”—Rob Tomanski,
Somerville, MA; reader response card
“Art and poetry blended, 100 Woodblock prints…
amazing and worthy of contemplation, Red
Pine’s clear commentary, a good introduction—
this is a book to be treasured for the rest
of one’s life! The more I looked, the more
wonderful!”—Joan Atwater, Payson, AZ; reader
response card
“Acidic in its wit… this book uncovers meaning
in meaninglessness and gravity in unbearable
lightness.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Georg Trakl
Song of the
Departed: Selected
Poems of Georg
Trakl
Translated from the
German with an
afterword by Robert Firmage
“For me the Trakl poem is an object of sublime
existence… In the history of the poem Trakl’s
books are important contributions toward the
liberation of the poetic figure.”—Ranier Maria
Rilke
“Lovely translation and afterword. Delighted
to find Trakl in your library.”—Joshua Sullivan,
Providence, RI; reader response card
Push Open
the Window:
Contemporary
Poetry from
China
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT
FOR THE ARTS
TRANSLATION GRANT
Edited by Qingping Wang.
Translated and coedited by Sylvia
Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt
“Includes poetry by 49 of China’s finest poets
born after 1945, with many of the poems
never before translated into English. In the
introduction to the anthology, Wang writes,
‘Regrettably, most people have little or no
appreciation of the best of today’s Chinese
poets and their work. Much of the poetry
collected in this volume will, at the very
least, reveal to the readers of poetry in two
countries...the true features of China’s fine
contemporary verse.’”—National Endowment
for the Arts
“A straightforward reminder that there are a
great number of people in this world, and among
them are many poets—individuals with quiet and
interesting voices. Copper Canyon Press artfully
presents these works from China that otherwise
would never be known to most of us.”—Kevin
Acers, Oklahoma City, OK; reader response card
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FIRST BOOK POETS
James Arthur
Charms Against Lightning
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY HODDING FELLOWSHIP
LANNAN LITERARY SELECTION
“An entrenched strangeness exists in Arthur’s work, derived not
from linguistic hijinks but from common observations… his tone is
casual and confident, the effect slightly off-frame or out of focus,
yet constantly arresting.”—The Believer
“Marries emotion and intellect in works that will entertain even
the casual reader of poetry.”—David Scott, Key Biscayne, FL; reader
response card
Natalie Diaz
When My Brother Was an Aztec
LANNAN LITERARY SELECTION
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS NOTABLE BOOK OF 2012
NATIVE ARTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION GRANT RECIPIENT
PBS NEWSHOUR PROFILE
FEATURED DEBUT AUTHOR IN POETS & WRITERS
POETRY FOUNDATION BESTSELLER
“This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life. In darkly
humorous poems, Diaz illuminates far corners of the heart.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Diaz’s poems create a realm in which religion and everyday taboos
intertwine like DNA, connecting us all through their often vivid
imagery and emotion.”—Jake Lesinski, Boston, MA; reader
response card
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PUBLIC READINGS AND ENGAGEMENT
FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
For You and Everything Alive Inside of You
To celebrate Copper Canyon’s fortieth anniversary and the opening of a Seattle office,
the Press hosted a poetry party at Seattle’s Richard Hugo House this past December.
Named for a poem by Vicente Aleixandre, the event featured Copper Canyon poets
Ed Skoog and Matthew Dickman, editors Michael Wiegers and Tonaya Thompson,
and a cast of distinguished Seattle-area poets. Each speaker read works from Copper
Canyon’s forty years of publishing history, including selections by C.D. Wright,
Hayden Carruth, June Jordan, Natalie Diaz, and Pablo Neruda, and shared how their
chosen poems have impacted their lives. The featured poet for the evening, James
Arthur, gave an impassioned recitation of his poems from memory to celebrate the
release of his new book, Charms Against Lightning. The event filled the venue to
capacity with readers new to the Copper Canyon family. “This was hands down the
most FUN I’ve had at a poetry reading,” said freelance writer Kathleen Nacozy. The
reading was sponsored by Poets & Writers.
“We were making deliberate choices to give voice to poems rather than just giving a
reading by default because it’s what’s done to mark occasions. It was special.”—Elissa
Washuta, memoirist
KWAME DAWES
Duppy Conqueror
A Universe of Poems celebrated the release of Kwame Dawes’s Duppy Conqueror, a
book of new and selected poems. Held at the Seattle Asian Art Museum in May 2013,
the event was opened by Youth Speaks Seattle, the city’s premier collective for youth
spoken-word poetry. Dawes’s experience as a distinguished poet and reader resonated
with the brave high school poets and an auditorium full of diverse listeners. After
hearing the young poets read, Dawes took the stage and addressed them directly,
saying “Always remember that poetry is yours. From here on out, for the rest of
your life, this is yours if you want it.” The evening of entertainment and inspiration
launched Copper Canyon’s community engagement program, which furthers the
Press’s new mission: to engage the imaginations and intellects of readers. The event
was generously cosponsored by the Gardner Center for Asian Arts and Ideas and
supported by Poets & Writers.
“Our bodies are poems–our scars, aches, wounds, quirks, beauties, ugly bits; our
pulse, our textures—a universe of poems.”––Kwame Dawes
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FRIENDS OF COPPER CANYON
PRESS
Thanks to the generous support from contributing readers, our fortieth anniversary
year features one of the strongest and most diverse groups of authors we have ever
published. Representing a wide-ranging array of aesthetics, languages, and cultures,
there is something to appeal to all poetry readers.
As a donor, your support has expanded the audience for our authors’ work
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Open Books: A Poem Emporium
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The Permissions Company
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HONORING DAVID BREWSTER
After fourteen years of meritorious service, David Brewster is stepping down from
the board of Copper Canyon Press.
A passionate advocate for poetry, David served the Press in several roles—
including board president, chair of the Governance Committee, and cochair of the
highly successful 2012 W.S. Merwin Legacy campaign—and helped guide the Press
through some of its greatest challenges and most notable successes.
David’s leadership, executive skills, publishing know-how, and passion for
literature will be missed at the board table, but more than that, the essential
contributions he has made to building this press will stand as a lasting testament
to his visionary spirit, kindness, and generosity.
Thank you, David!
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IN MEMORIAM:
DENNIS O’DRISCOLL
I met Dennis O’Driscoll a decade ago almost
by accident. I hadn’t known his work very well
but soon discovered that his knowledge of
contemporary poetry was as capacious and mindboggling as his genuine humility was disarming.
My affection for him was instant, but little did I know we’d become friends—and that I’d
eventually become his American editor. Copper Canyon Press has now published two of
his books and will publish Dear Life in September 2013. In this final volume, as in many
of his books, he addresses mortality, questions doctrine, and is not at all shy about the
occasional bad pun, balancing dissent on a high wire of delight in living.
Our friendship was largely through correspondence—he would always send a Christmas
card, without fail—his boldly joyous handwriting instantly recognizable in my mailbox. I
would look forward to his generous calls and letters, which most often highlighted some
poet or book he thought I should know about (he was always right), or some review of a
book Copper Canyon had published. Besides the generous spirit, and the books and music
he would send my daughter, he quite simply has the greatest vocabulary of poems and
poets of anyone I’ve ever known, and this was an ongoing gift to me. All who met him
were equally smitten.
As I established a working friendship with him, I felt that here was a man who got it. He
understood unlike anyone else what it is that I’m attempting as an editor; he understood
what the poets we published were doing; he understood and encouraged what I should
be doing as an editor. I would turn to him for advice on American poetry, as well as for
insight into European poetry. He just understood, and his conversation was never the sort
of ambitious pandering an editor sometimes encounters, but always an honest love of the
world and work of poetry. As a man who worked as a customs agent, and as a civil servant
since he was sixteen, he had an understanding, I think, of why we need poetry in our daily
lives. Every poem of his seemed to marvel in the living, in the creation of that poem.
The day after Christmas last year, I went into the office, having just heard of his death
on Christmas Day. I was alone there, and I checked my mailbox to see what had arrived
while I was away. There it was, sitting on top of the pile in an envelope marked with
his distinctive penmanship: my Christmas card from Dennis. Along with clippings of
reviews of a couple of other Copper Canyon poets, there was his letter, full of effusion and
enthusiasm, and ending with the final line: “I’m greatly looking forward to working with
you on Dear Life in 2013.”
Michael Wiegers
Adapted from a version in The Honest Pint (Tavern Books, 2013)
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from Dan Gerber, Sailing through Cassiopeia
Cinema Vérité
Often my life seems like a foreign film
through which I keep glancing down at the subtitles
to see how much of what the beautiful,
sad woman on the screen is saying
reflects what the beautiful, sad woman in me
would have her say.
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OPERATIONS: REVENUE AND EXPENSES
Copper Canyon is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Here is a graphic overview of
our revenue and expenses for the fiscal year 2011–2012:
Revenue
Contributions and grants
$589,568
50.5%
Book sales
$552,209
47.3%
Permission fees
$26,085
2.2%
Expenses
Publishing program
$858,099
74.9%
Administration
$172,265
15.0%
Development
$115,058
10.1%
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MISSION, BOARD, STAFF, AND INTERNS
Mission: Poetry is vital to language and living. Copper Canyon Press publishes
extraordinary poetry from around the world to engage the imaginations and
intellects of readers.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John Branch
David G. Brewster
Janet Cox
Mimi Gardner Gates
Mark Hamilton
Maureen Lee
Penny Peabody
Joseph C. Roberts
Larry Rouch
Rick Simonson
William True
Dan Waggoner
Austin Walters
HONORARY BOARD
MEMBERS
Jayne Lindley
H. Stewart Parker
Kathie Werner
INTERN ALUMNI: SUMMER
2011–SUMMER 2013
Mary Baylor
A. Richael Best
Matthew Brailas
Sara Brickman
J. Morgan Carney
Sally Decker
Elaina Ellis
Liza Flum
Sierra Golden
Lainey Guddat
Clayton Haselwood
Thomas Helmers
Kelly Hoffer
Kristen Johnson
Abigail Kiser
Cali Kopczick
Jessica Lawrence
Kelsi Lindus
Noah Lloyd
Sarena Meier
Phildough Montenegro
Kate Morley
Christopher Poore
Dacota Pratt-Pariseau
Anna Ready-Campbell
Jacob Schacker
Samantha Shaw
Sarina Sheth
Jadee Wagner
Olivia Wall
Sharon Wang
July Westhale
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Joseph Bednarik, Marketing &
Sales Director
George Knotek, Development
Director
Michael Wiegers, Executive
Editor
STAFF
Elaina Ellis, Community
Engagement Coordinator,
Associate Editor
Kelly Forsythe, Publicist
Margaret Kirk, Operations
Christopher Overman,
Warehouse Manager
Victoria Poling, Experiential
Programs Manager
Amelia Robertson, E-book
Coordinator
Samantha Shaw, Social Media
Specialist
Randy Sturgis, Finance
Manager
Tonaya Thompson, Managing
Editor
BOOK DESIGNERS
Valerie Brewster
Phil Kovacevich
COPYEDITORS AND
PROOFREADERS
David Caligiuri
Alison Lockhart
Todd Manza
John Pierce
Don Roberts
Mindy Wilson
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Copper Canyon Press
P.O. Box 271
Port Townsend, Washington 98368
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