The World Has Need of You: Poems for Connection

Author/Contributor(s):	Wiegers, Michael
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Date:	03/21/2023
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Poets feed us. They look where there seems to be nothing to see, and they see."

- Alberto Ríos

Whether for balm, fuel, or a sense of connection, people turn to poetry in times of joy and sorrow, celebration and confusion. Amidst the initial uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, the staff and interns at Copper Canyon Press did as well, and created this collection: The World Has Need of You.

Curated from our in-house catalogue of poems, we offer this anthology with deep thanks to our community: Your support and collaboration ensures that poetry will continue to flourish, bring comfort, and ignite change. Through any moment life presents to you, we trust that 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"