{"product_id":"the-world-has-need-of-you-poems-for-connection-9781556596230","title":"The World Has Need of You: Poems for Connection","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Poets feed us. They look where there seems to be nothing to see, and they see.\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlberto Ríiacute;os\u003c\/b\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe World Has Need of You\u003c\/i\u003e, a response to our community's need for balm, for fuel, for a sense of connection.\u003cbr\u003eCurated 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 downand tell you how poems are born in silenceand sometimes, in moments of great noise;of how they arrive like the rain, unexpectedly cracking open the sky. -- Tishani Doshi, from \"Find the Poets\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael 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 \u003ci\u003eWhat About This\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and received the Balcones Poetry Prize. He edited the anthologies \u003ci\u003eThe Poet's Child\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and translated poems for \u003ci\u003eReversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, which he co-edited with Mónica de la Torre. He is also the poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet laureate of Arizona and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, \u003cb\u003eAlberto Ríos\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eleven books of poetry. He is a National Book Award finalist, as well as a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Walt Whitman Award. His book \u003cem\u003eThe Theater of Night\u003c\/em\u003e received the PEN\/Beyond Margins Award. Published in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker, Paris Review, Ploughshares, \u003c\/em\u003e and other journals, Ríos has also written three short story collections and a memoir, \u003cem\u003eCapirotada, \u003c\/em\u003e about growing up on the Mexican border. Ríos teaches at Arizona State University and is the host of a PBS program \"Books \u0026amp; Co.\" He lives in Chandler, Arizona.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50673920049426,"sku":"9781556596230","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_639e9f5c-6b0f-413a-940e-6de52f826620.jpg?v=1733847896","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-world-has-need-of-you-poems-for-connection-9781556596230","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}