num_pages: 165
description: The centuries have changed little in this art,The subjects are still the same.—Kenneth Rexroth 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"? 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. 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. Poets write out of love and Lord, let me live / long enough to dare /a love poem —Cyrus Cassells Poets confront since we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.—David Budbill And poets write in order to live 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 Only poetry lasts.—Ho Xuan Huong Michael Wiegers is the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press. CONTRIBUTORS [box]Kay Boyle,Olga Broumas,Hayden Carruth,Norman Dubie,Han Shan,Jim Harrison,Carolyn Kizer,W.S. Merwin,Jane Miller,Kenneth Rexroth,Ruth Stone,Anna Swir
language: English
title: This Art: A Copper Canyon Ars Poetica Anthology
titlecomplete: This Art: A Copper Canyon Ars Poetica Anthology (Copper Canyon Press Anthology)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Copper Canyon Press