PORT TOWNSEND — Copper Canyon Press came close to publishing a third Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poetry last week.
Most recently, the publishing company based at Fort Worden State Park published Break the Glass by Jean Valentine.
It is described as a collection of imaginative poems in which “small details can accrue great power, and a reader is never sure where any poem might lead.”
The book was one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
The Common Man by Maurice Manning, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, won this year’s Pulitzer Prize, announced last week.
Michael Wiegers, Copper Canyon Press executive editor, was not available for comment Wednesday.
Break the Glass was the National Book Award-winning poet’s 11th collection.
The poems include elegies, meditations on aging and an extended homage to Lucy, the earliest known hominid.
Copper Canyon published the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin, and a finalist, What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems by Ruth Stone.
Copper Canyon also published poet Ted Kooser’s Pulitzer Prize winner, Delights & Shadows, in 2005.
Wiegers said North Olympic Peninsula and other Northwest residents donated to the project.
For every dollar of sales revenue, the nonprofit publisher has to generate another $1.
