""Poets feed us. They look where there seems to be nothing to see, and they see.""
-Alberto Ros
In times of joy and sorrow, celebration and confusion, people turn to poetry. Amid the initial uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the staff and interns of Copper Canyon Press created The World Has Need of You a response to our community's need for balm, for fuel, for a sense of connection.
Curated from our in-house catalogue of poems, this anthology is dedicated to our community of poets and readers with deep gratitude and awe: Your support and collaboration ensures that poetry will continue to flourish, bring comfort, and ignite change. We trust that, to weather any moment life brings, you will return to this collection to find the poets.
But they could sit you down
and tell you how poems are born in silence
and sometimes, in moments of great noise;
of how they arrive like the rain,
unexpectedly cracking open the sky.
- Tishani Doshi, from""Find the Poets""
Introduction by:
Alberto Ros
Edited by:
Michael Wiegers
Imprint: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781556596230
ISBN 10: 1556596235
Pages: 83
Publication Date: 01 July 2023
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface by Michael WiegersIntroduction by Alberto Rios You, Reader, as I Imagine You by Chase Twichell All of Us All of Us by Marianne Boruch Rain Light by W.S. Merwin The Current Isolationism by Camille Rankine Anxiety by Olav Hauge; Robert Hedin, trans. Prayer by Sarah Ruhl Unpacking a Globe by Arthur Sze What Issa Heard by David Budbill won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton letter from my heart to my brain by Rachel McKibbens Who I Write For by Vicente Aleixandre; Lewis Hyde, trans. from 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins There is a Light in Me by Anna Swir Duplex by Jericho Brown from Lao-tzu's Taoteching by Lao-tzu; Red Pine (Bill Porter), trans. Fingers by Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah, trans. Urgent Care by Dana Levin Concerning Necessity by Hayden Carruth A Physics of Sudden Light by Alberto Rios Obscurity and Lockdown by C.D. Wright Poema 18 by Pablo Neruda, Forrest Gander, trans. from Soft Targets by Deborah Landau Often I Imagine the Earth by Dan Gerber Visitor by Brenda Shaugnessy Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong 'Not many of them, it's true' by Gregory Orr The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass Meditation on Transmission by Dean Rader Nobody Riding the Roads Today by June Jordan Goshen by Ruth Stone from A Poetics of Space by Lisa Olstein from Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays by James Richardson Country Scene by Ho Xuan Huong; John Balaban, trans. In Praise of Noise by James Arthur Masks by Laura Kasischke Even all night long by Jean Valentine On Visiting the Site of a Slave Massacre in Opelousas by Roger Reeves from I Am a Miner. The Lights Burn Blue. by Victoria Chang Right Hand by Ted Kooser Love in the Time of Swine Flu by Aimee Nezhukumatathil For the First Crow with West Nile Virus to Arrive in Our State by Lucia Perillo Under construction by Bob Hicok Waking after the Surgery by Leila Chatti mer * cy by Alison Rollins Geo-Bestiary: 34 by Jim Harrison Ceasing to Be by Matthew Zapruder Spring by Jenny George Rest. by Richard Jones Everybody Has a Fatal Disease by Heather McHugh Not This by Olena Kalytiak Davis Slow Song for Mark Rothko by John Taggart Find the Poets by Tishani Doshi
Michael Wiegers has been acquiring and editing books for Copper Canyon Press since 1993, and currently serves as the Press's Executive Editor. He has edited two retrospective volumes of the poetry of Frank Stanford, includingWhat About This, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and received the Balcones Poetry Prize. He edited the anthologiesThePoet's ChildandThis Artand translated poems forReversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican PoetryHe is also the poetry editor ofNarrativeand regularly speaks about the art of publishing at universities and colleges around the world. He is currently at work on a book about the poet W.S. Merwin. Poet laureate of Arizona and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Alberto Rosabout growing up on the Mexican border. Ros teaches at Arizona State University and is the host of a PBS program ""Books & Co."" He lives in Chandler, Arizona.
