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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.

A politically urgent yet timeless collection that studiesthe devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation onpower and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us aboutinhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control thewind, and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critiqueof pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines /up the side of a tree / taking everything”—Wind, Trees joins the ranksof politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S.Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought andpunctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and theredemptive possibilities of love.

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 balance of rigidity, rhyme and ruin . . . makes an Olena Kalytiak Davis poem extraordinarily distinct. Even when she’s alluding to Dante and Rilke and Chekhov, her voice is like no one else’s.”—New York Times, Editors ChoiceIn Late Summer Ode, Olena Kalytiak Davis writes froma heightened state of ambivalence, perched between past and present tensions.With Chekovian humor and metered pathos, from a garden in Anchorage not piningfor Brooklyn, these poems “self -protest, -process, -recede.” Davis is aconductor of sound and meaning, precise to the syllable: a commanding talent incontemporary poetry.

Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma isheld to the light and finally named.In this astonishing second collection by Taneum Bambrick,violence hides in the glint of the carving knife—every intimacy a shadow, everymemory a maze to navigate. Set primarily in rural Southern Spain, Intimacies,Received moves through streets and fields, households and years, followinga survivor of sexual assault as she painstakingly reassembles a narrative ofself. A brilliant storyteller, Bambrick builds through palimpsest—layeringvivid imagery to recall embodiment and dissociation, illness and isolation,queer female sexuality amidst acts of misogyny—utilizing varied forms includingekphrasis, persona, and a lyric essay. Ultimately, Intimacies, Receivedsignals agency, as trauma is held to the light and finally named.

Ruhl's poetry sings with a humbling honesty about who we share our lives with and those who form our hollows.

Ed Skoog meticulously documents family bonds, disruptions, and the crucible of travel while researching the 1955 murder of his grandfather

Young uses the surreal as the thread which weaves in and out of complications of existence. The result is a textured, honest work that grapples with what it means to love, lose, and hang in the afterward.

Prophetic and rich in rural folklore and literary allusions, this seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln, transcending the darkness of Lincoln's time and imagining new lore entirely.

This haunting lyrical sequence considers the body's vulnerability under the threat of terror and in the light of love.

A fierce, contemporary reworking of ancient mythology-from Ovid to Eden-confronts sexual violence, loss, and existential reckoning.

Stroud's poems move reverently across the earth and through time with keen observation and wonder at the world's luminous presence.

Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Shrapnel Maps is at once elegiac and activist.

Wilson weaves an intricate critique of race, gender, and isolation into the context of epics, space dust, and intimacy.

The world's first substantial selection of English translations of this great T'ang Dynasty poet.

With her characteristic sparse lyricism, Chase Twichell explores how the past persistently parallels the present to reimagine the self.

Drawing from strikingly disparate material, David Orr's debut collection concerns itself with the mysteries and incongruities of recognizably contemporary life.

Alison Rollins, a librarian by trade, disrupts the canon by re-cataloging language, culture, and history in her debut collection.

Miller's latest collection interrogates itself as much as its readers with questions of desire and loss, empathy and accountability.

This ambitious collection by Palestine's leading poet provides a documentary perspective of an embattled region through delicate narratives and lyricism.

This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings.

"Michael McGriff lets his bucket down on a long long rope, to tug the darkness up into light."-Albert Goldbarth

This poignant, sometimes comic, meditation examines the joys and sorrows of loving another person in rich, microscopic detail.