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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This anthology pays tribute to the art of poetry and Copper Canyon's 30-year dedication to publishing it.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The centuries have changed little in this art, <br> The subjects are still the same.--Kenneth Rexroth</p><p>Why poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, this urge to making a scrapbook of stars?</p><p>Every poet, by accident or design, has responded to Why poetry by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement.</p><p>As Marvin Bell has written, Writing is all and everything. This anthology of poems about the art and life of poetry--which draws widely from Copper Canyon's 30-year backlist of poetry books--proves him right.</p><p><b>Poets write out of love and longing: </b></p><p>Lord, let me live / long enough to dare /a love poem --Cyrus Cassells</p><p><b>Poets confront suffering: </b></p><p>since we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.--David Budbill</p><p><b>And poets write in order to live fully: </b></p><p>We all stumble into ourselves /like this, fitting our fingers to the shape of letters, / while the page gallops out of our reach--Rebecca Seiferle</p><p>Only poetry lasts.--Ho Xuan Huong</p><p><b>Michael Wiegers </b>is the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press.</p><p>CONTRIBUTORS Included: [box]<br> Kay Boyle, <br> Olga Broumas, <br> Hayden Carruth, <br> Norman Dubie, <br> Han Shan, <br> Jim Harrison, <br> Carolyn Kizer, <br> W.S. Merwin, <br> Jane Miller, <br> Kenneth Rexroth, <br> Ruth Stone, <br> Anna Swir</p>

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