Copper Canyon's 25th anniversary anthology gathers nearly 300 poems by over 100 distinguished poets and translators. Hamill, poet and principal editor of the prestigious Copper Canyon Press, has assembled a remarkable retrospective of the many labors of his little company. The list of poets offered here is almost staggering in its variety: Nobel Prize winners (Pablo Neruda and Odysseus Elytis); prominent American poets (Hayden Carruth, John Haines, W.S. Merwin, Carolyn Kizer, and James Laughlin); poets in translation (Jean Joubert, O.V. de L. Milosz, Sandor Csoori, and Su Tung-p'o); and poets beginning to come into their own (Eleanor Wilner, Shirley Kaufman, Timothy Liu, and Richard Jones). Hamill's taste, as reflected in these choices, honors a certain humility, an earthiness, in poetry. Hamill's introduction sketches the recent history of American poetry, of which Copper Canyon has been an important part; his notes are warmly percipient appreciations of the poets his press has fostered. This anthology will appeal strongly to all readers of contemporary poetry; highly recommended.?Graham Christian, Andover-Harvard Theological Lib., Cambridge, Mass. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Old Man Is Like Moses by Vicente Aleixandre 18. by Odysseus Alepoudeli Anoint The Ariston': 27 by Odysseus Alepoudeli Anoint The Ariston: 10 by Odysseus Alepoudeli As Endymion by Odysseus Alepoudeli Sun The First by Odysseus Alepoudeli In The Forest by Heather Allen Each Time by Edgar Anawrok A Death Fugue by Paul Antschel After Our War by John Balaban Anna Akhmatova Spends The Night On Miami Beach by John Balaban Riding Westward by John Balaban The Book Of The Dead Man: 2. More About The Dead Man by Erin Belieu Rondeau At The Train Stop by Erin Belieu The Book Of The Dead Man (#1) by Marvin Bell The Book Of The Dead Man (#43) 1. About The Dead Man And Desire by Marvin Bell The Book Of The Dead Man (#43) 2. More About The Dead Man And Desire by Marvin Bell A Primer About The Flag by Marvin Bell Iron Man Of The Hoh by Nelson Bentley Alone by Stephen Berg Clouded Sky by Stephen Berg Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyo (1989) by Stephen Berg On This Side Of The River by Stephen Berg Orpingalik's My Breath: Eskimo Song by Stephen Berg Chinese Dragons by David Bottoms Sierra Bear by David Bottoms Under The Vulture-tree by David Bottoms Ode To A Maintenance Man And His Family by Kay Boyle Parsvanatha by Robert Bringhurst The Song Of Ptahhotep by Robert Bringhurst If I Yes by Olga Broumas Oregon Landscape With Lost Lover by Olga Broumas Sappho's Gymnasium by Olga Broumas Touched by Olga Broumas Combing by Gladys Cardiff Grey Woman by Gladys Cardiff The Camps by Hayden Carruth The Cows At Night by Hayden Carruth Sleeping Beauty (1990): 112 by Hayden Carruth Sleeping Beauty (1990): 15 by Hayden Carruth Sonnet by Hayden Carruth Testament by Hayden Carruth 'vermont', Sels. by Hayden Carruth From The Theater Of Wine; Gerona, Spain by Cyrus Curtis Cassells Soul Make A Path Through Shouting by Cyrus Curtis Cassells Joy by Thomas Centolella Small Acts by Thomas Centolella The Woman Of Three Minds by Thomas Centolella Dear Jesse Helms by Lucille Clifton Night Vision by Lucille Clifton Everything You Own by Gerald Costanzo Somebody Consoles Me With A Poem by Sandor Csoori Solitude by Michael Cuddihy This Body Michael by Michael Cuddihy Driving In A Snowstorm, King Salmon To Naknek by Richard Dauenhauer Beetle Light by Madeline Defrees 'priest': 8 by Hilda Doolittle Lost Body by Terry Ehret Ourselves Or Nothing by Carolyn Forche Post-modernism by James Galvin Station (4) by James Galvin Two Horses And A Dog by James Galvin House Of Breath by Ken Gerner Prey by Ken Gerner Imprint Of Microscopic Life Found In Arctic Stones by Patricia Goedicke Ordinary, As Love by Susan Griffin To The Far Corners Of Fractured Worlds by Susan Griffin Evening Change by John Haines If The Owl Calls Again by John Haines Nocturnal by John Haines Two Lines From Paul Celan by Mark Warren Halperin The Gift Of Tongues by Sam Hamill Reading Seferis by Sam Hamill Cold Mountain: 1 by Han Shan Cold Mountain: 205 by Han Shan Cold Mountain: 71 by Han Shan Poem On Losing One's Teeth by Han Yu Moored For The Night At The Lan-chi-riverside Courier Station by Paul Hansen Appaloosa Hail Storm by Gerald Andrews Hausman At Betharram by Robert Hedin At The Olive Grove Of The Resistance by Robert Hedin Transcanadian by Robert Hedin The Clean People by Jim Heynen Solitaire by George Parks Hitchcock Unexpected Manna by Gary H. Holthaus Neighbor by Richard Hugo Fir by T. E. Jay The Key by Richard Jones The Novel by Richard Jones The Poet's Heart by Richard Jones Times Like This by Richard Jones Brilliant Sky by Jean