books by Copper Press     books:       The collected songs of Cold Mountain Han-shan Copper Canyon Press, 1983 This authoritative, bilingual edition represents the first time the entirety of Cold Mountain's poetry has been translated into English. These translations were originally published by Copper Canyon Press nearly twenty years ago. Now, significantly revised and expanded, the collection also includes a new preface by the translator, Red Pine, whose accompanying notes are at once scholarly, accessible, and entertaining. Also included for the first ...             Crow With No Mouth (Old Edition) Ikkyu, Stephen Berg Copper Canyon Press, 1989 poetry, classic Japanese, tr Stephen Berg             A Deadly Affection Copper Bottom Press, 2012 New York City, 1907.   At the dawn of the twentieth century, Americans believe that science, especially the medical sciences, will soon conquer all of mankind's ills. For a brief time medical schools open their doors to women, allowing them to join the scientific crusade. Genevieve Summerford is one woman who answers the call.... After a past family tragedy for which she holds herself to blame, Dr. Genevieve Summerford wants nothing more ...             The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien Tao Chien Copper Canyon Press, 2000 Chinese, tr David Hinton             Book of Questions Pablo Neruda Copper Canyon Press, 2001 Pablo Neruda is one of the world's most popular poets, and The Book of Questions is Copper Canyon's all-time best-seller. This updated bilingual edition is entirely re-designed and features a new cover, new interior, and an introduction by translator. In The Book of Questions , Neruda refuses to be corralled by the rational mind. Composed of 316 unanswerable questions, these poems integrate the wonder of a child with the experiences of an ...             Talking to My Body Anna Swir Copper Canyon Press, 1996 With a critical afterword by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and National Book Award nominee Leonard Nathan.             Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse (Mandarin Chinese and English ... Copper Canyon Press, 2003 Poetry is China’s greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been that country’s most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here is the complete text, with an introduction and extensive notes by renowned translator, Red Pine. Over one hundred poets are represented in this bilingual edition, including many of China’s celebrated poets: Li Pai, Wang Wei, Tu Fu, Wang Po, ...             The Human Line Ellen Bass Copper Canyon Press, 2007 “Poetry,” writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, “is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It’s the way I embody my love for the world.” The Human Line, Bass’ seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life’s endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense of humor. She also faces many ...             The Lichtenberg Figures (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets) Ben Lerner Copper Canyon Press, 2004 The Lichtenberg Figures , winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. “Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning. Throughout this playful and elegiac debut—with its flashes of autobiography, intellection, comedy, and critique—the ...             Saying the World Peter Pereira Copper Canyon Press, 2003 Peter Pereira is at the forefront of a national movement of medical practitioners who utilize literature as a part of their training. Saying the World arises from his practice as a family physician serving the urban poor, as well as his experience as a childless gay man. Selected from over one thousand entries in the Hayden Carruth Award, judges Gregory Orr and Sam Hamill cited Pereira’s work as "full of stunning poems" and noted that ...             Mister Skylight Ed Skoog Copper Canyon Press, 2009 "Skoog’s first full-length collection captures and presents the truth of the truth: our under-analyzed, overlooked, often fragile existences on earth."—Dave Jarecki "Skoog’s use of language is disorientating, vivid and surprising, all the things I love about great poetry."—Nathan Moore "Ed Skoog purposefully blindfolds us, spins us around and dares us to find a target. He wants us to be unbalanced in our interaction with the work; he ...             Voices (Spanish Edition) Antonio Porchia Copper Canyon Press, 2003 Antonio Porchia (1886–1968) wrote one book, a slender collection of poetic aphorisms that became a classic in the Spanish-speaking world. With affinities to Taoist and Buddhist epigrams, Voices bears witness to the awe of human existence. Revised and updated with a new introduction by translator W.S. Merwin, this bilingual volume brings back into print one of Latin America’s great literary treasures. He who tells the truth says almost ...             The country between us Carolyn Forché Copper Canyon Press, 1981 The book opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where ForchÉ worked as a journalist and was closely involved with the political struggle in that tortured country in the late 1970's. ForchÉ's other poems also tend to be personal, immediate, and moving. Perhaps the final effect of her poetry is the image of a sensitive, brave, and engaged young woman who has made her life a journey. She has already traveled to many places, as these ...             Saving Daylight Jim Harrison Copper Canyon Press, 2007 Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star and the Michigan Library Association. “Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”— The Times (London) “This is [Harrison’s] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising poetry collection to date.”— Booklist Jim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—calls his poetry “the true bones of my life.” Although he is best known as a ...             We Almost Disappear David Bottoms Copper Canyon Press, 2011 "An exquisite storyteller."— The Southern Review "David Bottoms's poems just get better and better."— The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise." — Library Journal Rooted in the customs of Southern families and peopled with undertakers, bluegrass musicians, daughters practicing karate, and elderly ...             In Search of Small Gods Jim Harrison Copper Canyon Press, 2009 “Jim Harrison has probed the breadth of human appetites—for food and drink, for art, for sex, for violence and, most significantly, for the great twin engines of love and death. Perhaps no American writer better appreciates those myriad drives; since the publication of his first collection of poetry . . . Harrison has become their poet laureate.”—Salon.com In Jim Harrison’s new book of poems, birds and humans converse, biographies are ...             The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav Hauge (Norwegian Edition) Olav H. Hauge Copper Canyon Press, 2008 "...spare, psalmlike poems....Together, the poems in this beautifully translated selection...provide us with the autobiography of a poet who felt most at home during winter, in solitude. Hauge deserves a larger American readership, and this book may summon it." — Publishers Weekly "(Hauge's) poetry is miniaturist, pictorial, and ruminative; personal in that his experience, cognitive and sensual observations, and intentions are everywhere in ...             Migration: New & Selected Poems W.S. Merwin Copper Canyon Press, 2007 Named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times . Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry “The poems in Migration speak a life-long belief in the power of words to awaken our drowsy souls and see the world with compassionate interconnection.”—National Book Award judges’ statement “The publication of W. S. Merwin’s selected and new poems is one of those landmark events in the literary world.”— Los ...              search for books affection, almost, anthology, between, carruth, chinese, classic, collected, country, daylight, disappear, dynasty, edition, emerging, english, figures, hayden, lichtenberg, mandarin, masters, migration, mountain, norwegian, questions, saying, selected, skylight, spanish, talking, voices books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: The Hunger home  impressum - about us