Books published by Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Gander won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for poetry book BeWith Gander has collaborated with photographers visual andartists throughout his career, including Sally Mann, Dan Borris, Lucas Foglia,Raymond Meeks, Rikki Ducornet, and Tjibbe HooghiemstraGander is a leading literary figure, working acrossmultiple genresGander also has a translation title on the FW22 listfrom Copper Canyon: Names and Rivers, by Japanese poet Shuri KitoJack Shear is known for architectural photography, aswell as portraits of writers and artists such as Jasper Johns, William S.Burroughs and Ellsworth KellyThis book co-published with the art publisher MWEditions. The production will be high-quality with a consumer-friendly pricepoint

This is the fourthGerber poetry book published by Copper Canyon Gerber’s work hasappeared in many popular national publications, including The New Yorker;Poetry; Playboy; Sports Illustrated; and The NationBorn and raised inMichigan, Gerber retains strong ties to the Midwest, winning the Mark TwainAward for Distinguished Contributions to Midwestern Literature, a MichiganAuthors Award, and the Society of MidlandAuthors awardGerber’sfiction was brought back into print, and his nonfiction collected in book form,through Michigan State University PressAs apoet, Gerber is known especially for his ability to offer consolation and grace through aestheticcontemplation, epiphanies in nature, and deep recollection of memories.Gerber is the onlyAmerican poet who also had a career as a race-car driver and was honored with alimited-edition replica of his car, a1966 Shelby Mustang. (As of January 2022,you could find one on Ebay for about $250.)Gerber is an ordainedZen priest.

In Black Swim, Nicholas Goodly casts a spell to transform darkness into perfect darkness. This stunning debut collection is at once “forged from the hurt parts of the ground,” and “proof of a miracle,” spinning ache and sweat and sweetness into a new model of feeling through language. Black people, queer/trans/nonbinary people, flamboyant people, lonely people, gaudy people, kind people, witches, artists, and angry people will meet themselves and each other in these pages. Amidst death and against injustice, Goodly’s poems bear gifts for and from the ancestors—a necklace, a mirror, a form of offered prayer: “If there is a purpose in this life / let me wash my face in it.”

Julian Gewirtz is a China expert who speaks fluent Mandarin.Graduated from Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar, and earned aPhD at OxfordServed in the Obama administrationPublished articles on Asia for New York Times, WallStreet Journal, Washington Post, The Guardian, Financial Times, Harper’s,and Foreign Policy.His book Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers,Western Economists, and the Making of Global China was published by HarvardUniversity PressAs a poet, Gewirtz allows for fierce observationsbetween the state and a solitary worker, asking us where does justice exist andfor whom.  Gewirtz can home in on a single character or ahistorical moment, allowing the reader to interpret the connections betweenpeople and place.Gewirtz has worked and lived in China, lending first-handexperience and insight into his narrative voice. His poems refer to and utilize historical accounts,artwork, news-clippings, and personal encounters. Gewirtz has published poetry criticism and nonfictionessays in The Economist, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Los Angeles Review ofBooks, Poetry Foundation, and The Washington Post.

The Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era.

After her mother's death, Chang wrote deep into grief by composing "obits"-from her mother's blue dress to language itself.

With her sharp, punchy, sardonic wit, Natalie Shaperös Popular Longing explores sadnesses and subordinations in their myriad forms.

Marvin is known for bristling, provocative poems on what it means to be a woman and navigating turbulent relationships with both beloved ones and oneself. Marvin, dubbed a "postmodern Plath," can find herself simultaneously violent and tender, sharp and vulnerable, using irony and dark humor just as skillfully as Plath to make fierce observations on relationships and loss. Marvin co-founded VIDA, an organization committed to highlighting gender disparities in the larger landscape of literary publications. The organization is known for the "VIDA Count," an annual gender breakdown of major literary publications and book reviews. Marvin had her first child through IVF in her late 30s. Some poems address the contrasts between how she was parented versus what she wants for her daughter. Marvin explores a plethora of complicated relationships and their statuses-old or reconnected boyfriends, toxic friendships, austere parents, being a single mother. Recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Some poems in Event Horizon refer to or are in conversation with other writers, including "dead poets" like Marianne Moore and Richard Howard, and also more contemporary ones like Sharon Olds and Wallace Stevens. Marvin is an only child, and her father was a CIA intelligence analyst. There are poems about their strained relationship in the book.

After decades out of print, Passion-one of June Jordan's most important collections-has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including "Poem About My Rights," "Poem About Police Violence," "Free Flight," and an essay by the poet, "For the Sake of the People's Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us." June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people-and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: "We are the ones we have been waiting for." With love and humor, via lyrics and rants, she calls for nothing less than radical compassion. This new edition includes a foreword by Nicole Sealey.