The World Has Need of You

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The World Has Need of You is an anthology born from the upheaval and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Curated from Copper Canyon Press's rich catalogue, it gathers poems that offer comfort, connection, and inspiration. This collection reflects poetry's power to nourish the soul in times of joy, sorrow, and transformation.
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This anthology is ideal for poetry lovers and readers seeking solace and insight during challenging times. It will appeal to those who appreciate the profound ways poetry can foster community and resilience.

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"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"

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781556596230

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Michael Wiegers
Introduction by Alberto Ros

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 83

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

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, including What About This, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and received the Balcones Poetry Prize. He edited the anthologies The Poet's Child and This Art, and translated poems for Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, which he co-edited with Mnica de la Torre. He is also the poetry editor of Narrative and 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 Ros about 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.