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Copper Canyon Press has long been a supporter of young and emerging poets, and we continue that tradition with Roger Reeves’ highly anticipated first work, King Me.When Reeves was young, he was a Pentecostal preacher. He also hung out in a barbershop, and listened to the «barbershop talk.» From these experiences, he absorbed distinct cadences and ways of speaking.After Reeves left the Pentecostal church, he funneled his verbal energy into poetry.Reeves studied rocket science at Princeton and is now working on a Ph.D. in Chicago.When asked what his book was about, he said «What it means to be a black man in American society.»Theme in the book includes sister's bipolar disorder, and the traumatic undertones of her condition going untreated.Title comes from when Reeves would play checkers with her sister and she would holler «King me! King me!» He loved that swagger and demand.Cover art is owned by rapper Jay-Z

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"Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets."—The New York Times "Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence."—Booklist "Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets."—The Washington Post In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of The Quotation of Bone, the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history. The Quotations of Bone The meal of bone was a soured milk—just the heads of giant elkin a dark circle looking downon a wooden bowl of soda crackersand pork. One large kniferesting in the meatof a woodsman's calloused hand.He grins at his womanwho is slowly poisoning himwith the stringy resins of morning glory.A tasteless turpentine with pink pig.The speeches of boneare matrimonial in early autumn—by January there's a froth of bloodat a nostril.He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear.She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer.I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou.One small addendum:the dead elk are grinning too. Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

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– Letters to Yesenin is considered by many critics to be Harrison’s poetry masterwork – Launches a new series called Copper Canyon Classics—slender, inexpensive paperbacks in a 5 x 7 format, that focus on: o distillations from larger works in Copper Canyon backlist (e.g. Letters to Yesenin currently exists within the 500+ page Shape of the Journey) o reissues o public domain texts o titles under consideration include W.S. Merwin's Spanish Ballads, poems by June Jordan, Wang Wei, Trakl

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• Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2009• Perillo left Random House to join Copper Canyon • Executive Editor Michael Wiegers never accepted a book faster than this one • Perillo is a Macarthur “Genius” Fellowship and has been featured on the cover of American Poetry Review • Perillo is the only poet to have won both the Kate Tufts Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award • The biography is of interest: Perillo was a park ranger in the Cascade Mountains and in her 30s she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Now she is in a wheelchair. Many of her poems candidly deal with how she negotiates the disease. Her much-praised nonfiction book, I Heard the Vultures Singing, takes the subject head-on. • The poems are gripping, and it is fair to call this book a “page turner.”

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"Mort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort's poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended."—Library Journal "A one-of-a-kind work of passion and insight."—Midwest Book Review "Mort's style—tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism—recalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska."—Los Angeles Times Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and Collected Body is her first collection composed in English. Whether writing about sex, relatives, violence, or fish markets as opera, Mort insists on vibrant, dark truths. «Death hands you every new day like a golden coin,» she writes, then warns that as the bribe grows «it gets harder to turn down.» "Preface" on a bare tree—a red beast,so still, it has become the tree.now it's the tree that prowls over the beast,a cautious beast itself. a stone thrown at its breastis so fast—the stone has become the beast.now it's the beast that throws itself like a stone,blood like a dog-rose tree on a windy day,and the moon is trying on your facefor the annual masquerade of the dead. death decides to wait to hear more.so death mews:first—your story, then—me. Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus. Her American debut, Factory of Tears, appeared in 2008 and she was featured on the cover of Poets & Writers. She has received many honors and awards, including a Civitella Raineri fellowship. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Here is the definitive collection of poetry from one of America’s best-loved writers—now available in paperback. With the publication of this book, eight volumes of poetry were brought back into print, including the early nature-based lyrics of Plain Song, the explosive Outlyer & Ghazals, and the startling «correspondence» with a dead Russian poet in Letters to Yesenin. Also included is an introduction by Harrison, several previously uncollected poems, and «Geo-Bestiary,» a 34-part paean to earthly passions. The Shape of the Journey confirms Jim Harrison’s place among the most brilliant and essential poets writing today."Behind the words one always feels the presence of a passionate, exuberant man who is at the same time possessed of a quick, subtle intelligence and a deeply questioning attitude toward life. Harrison writes so winningly that one is simply content to be in the presence of a writer this vital, this large-spirited."–The New York Times Book Review"(An) untrammelled renegade genius… here’s a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."—Publishers Weekly"Readers can wander the woods of this collection for a lifetime and still be amazed at what they find."—Booklist (starred review.)When first published, this book immediately became one of Copper Canyon Press’s all-time bestsellers. It was featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, became a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was selected as one of the «Top-Ten Books of 1998» by Booklist.Jim Harrison is the author of twenty books, including Legends of the Fall and The Road Home. He has also written numerous screenplays and served as the food columnist for Esquire magazine. He lives in Michigan and Arizona.Dead DeerAmid pale green milkweed, wild clover, a rotted deer curled, shaglike, after a winter so cold the trees split open. I think she couldn't keep up with the others (they had no place to go) and her food, frozen grass and twigs,

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· Hayden Carruth Award has developed into one of the most prestigious awards for emerging poets · Manuscript enthusiastically selected from over 1200 manuscripts. · Reading 1200 anonymous poetry manuscripts can be a mind-numbing experience, but Olstein’s manuscript shined through at level of reading, and some of the many notes scrawled on her manuscript from the readers include: o YES! o Stunning poems o Generous o Reaches out and grabs the reader o Engaging poetic logic o Lovely arc throughout book · Olstein is a former student at Harvard Divinity School · Subjects of poems include self-hypnosis, Greek islands, perceptions rooted in chronic illness

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“This poet brings a sparkling consciousness to the page and an exciting new voice to American poetry.”—Library Journal “Most appealing is Olstein's sensitive, quietly pained and earnest tone, w hich, more than the unusual subject, is the real star of this book.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review In Lisa Olstein’s daring new book, an unnamed lepidopterist—living in a hut on the edge of an unnamed village—is drawn ever deeper into the engrossing world of moths, light, and seeing. Structured as a naturalist’s notebook, the four-part sequence of prose poems create a layered pilgrimage into the consequences of intensive study, the trials of being an outsider, and the process of metamorphosis. In an interview, Olstein once said, “I don’t want poetry to limit itself to reflecting or recapitulating experience; I want it to be an experience.” I have learned to peer at specimens through a small crack at the center of my fist. It’s a habit herders use for distance: vision is concentrated, the crude tunnel brings into focus whatever small expanse lies on the other side, something in the narrowing magnifies what remains. At the table, my hand tires of clenching, my left eye of closing, my right of its squint, but the effect: a blurred carpet of wing becomes a careful weave of eyelashes colored, curved, exquisitely laid . . . Lisa Olstein is the author of the Hayden Carruth Award–winning volume Radio Crackling, Radio Gone. She earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts and directs the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, «because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them.» This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascialike pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones.The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stickagainst the lion's cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow! With one swipe of a paw much like a catcher's mitt with fangs, the lionpulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars. The lion didn't want to do it—He didn't want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowdthis: I only wanted some goddamn sleep . . . Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball for four years in Europe and Asia, Diaz returned to the states to complete her MFA at Old Dominion University. She lives in Surprise, Arizona, and is working to preserve the Mojave language.

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Book will come with French flaps Newest title in Feminist Press's Amethyst Editions imprint This book is a sister title to  The Beautifully Worthless (City Lights), winner of the 2006 Lambda Literary Award for best lesbian debut fiction. Ali Liebegott has a cult following and a strong personal literary network that will help support this book. Lesbian relationships rarely survive the death of a parent , Ali Liebegott's therapist tells her in the pages of this novel-in-verse. Despite Ali's defiance, the prediction comes true. In  Summer of Dead Birds , she explores the toll of mental illness and grief on romantic partnerships—fragile things anyway—through a lesbian lens. 

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