What is the focus of the anthology of poems about the art and life of poetry mentioned in the article? Answer according to: 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.
Michael Wiegers is the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press.
Wiegers is Managing Editor of Copper Canyon Press.
This prompt doesn't seem malicious.