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Poetry
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Books in this online selection represent only a sliver of what we offer in the store. If you've got a particular book in mind and want to check on its availability, call us at 415-362-8193.
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If I were writing this
Robert Creeley
At the City Hall in a small town in the South of France, one man starts his campaign to correct the ills that have overtaken his proud nation by lecturing the town's inhabitants on the art of conversation.
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EyeSeas
Selected Poems (Les Ziaux)
Raymond Queneau
Les Ziaux (Eyeseas) presents a survey of Raymond Queneau's poems as written from his early Surrealist days of the 1920's through to 1943 and is representative of Queneau's range of poetic voices. Queneau (1903-1976)authored some 18 novels, 10 volumes...
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The Walking-Away World
Kenneth Patchen
The wonderful picture-poems of Kenneth Patchen, long out of print, are being brought back into one generous volume—cryptic creatures quipping quirky quotes and all. The singular work of Kenneth Patchen has influenced poets, artists and political...
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We Meet
Kenneth Patchen
Meet Kenneth Patchen, a prolific, ground-breaking proletarian poet/painter whose most eclectic and wildly eccentric works are re-launched in a single startling volume—We Meet. The singular work of Kenneth Patchen has influenced poets, artists and...
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The Hands of Day
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda is one of the world's great poets, and Copper Canyon Press has long been dedicated to publishing translations of his work in bilingual editions.The Hands of Day-at long last translated into English in its entirety-pronounces Neruda's...
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Auguries of Innocence
Poems
Patti Smith
Auguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics. In this intimate...
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A Coney Island of the Mind
50th Anniversary Edition (with CD)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A million copies in print—translated into over a dozen languages—one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published, now available in a new hardcover edition containing a CD of the author reading his work. Ferlinghetti is a...
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One Of A Kind
Jack Micheline
A book of art and writing by the American poet, Jack Micheline. One Of A Kind combines unpublished work selected from the poet's archives with rare writings from all points in his career.
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Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems
Cesar Vallejo
A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet’s work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo’s work has often been overshadowed by his...
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All That's Left
Jack Hirschman
Poems for social justice by San Francisco's Poet Laureate
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The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire
The poetic masterpiece of the great nineteenth-century writer Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil is one of the most frequently read and studied works in the French language. In this compelling new translation of Baudelaire's most famous...
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State of Exile
Pocket Poets Number 58
Cristina Peri Rossi
A tender, moving, and multi-layered portrait of the pain, loneliness and permanent nostalgia of exile.
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Selected Poems, 1945-2005
Robert Creeley
This new, compact Selected Poems offers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It showcases the works that made him one of the most beloved and significant writers of the past century...
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