Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
MS 2004-17
Copper Canyon Press
Preliminary Guide to the Copper Canyon Press Records
1995-2003
47 Linear feet of shelf space
59 Boxes
This collection consists of publishing and business records of Copper Canyon Press of Port Townsend, Washington.
(MASC STAFF USE) Holland 4-8-1-1
Collection materials are in English
Copper Canyon Press (CCP), a nonprofit publishing company, was founded in 1972 by Sam
Hamill, poet and translator, and Holly (Tree) Swenson, book designer, in Denver, CO. In 1974
Hamill and Swenson relocated the company to Port Townsend, WA. They established the press to
publish poetry exclusively, within the tradition of serious literary publishing. Their first
titles were printed from hand-set type on antique letterpresses, but they soon began
publishing more-affordable trade books.
Three primary aspects of poetry are emphasized by the press, according to an organizational
history included in this collection: work from new or emerging writers; major works by
distinguished writers, including selected or collected poems; and poetry in translation.
Among the poets published by CCP are Nobel Laureates Pablo Neruda, Odysseas Elytis, Vicente
Aleixandre, Octavio Paz, and Rabindranath Tagore; Pulitzer Prize winners Carolyn Kizer, Ted
Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Theodore Roethke, and W. S. Merwin; and National Book Award winners
Hayden Carruth, Lucille Clifton, and Ruth Stone. As of May 2007, CCP has published over 300
titles, including new collections, anthologies, translations, re-issues, and prose books
about poetry.
(Source: Copper Canyon Press web site, http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/, accessed 3 May
2007)
This collection consists of publishing and business records of Copper Canyon Press of Port Townsend, Washington.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
[Item description]
Preliminary Guide to the Copper Canyon Press Records, 1995-2003 (MS 2004-17)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The Washington State University Libraries purchased this collection from the Copper Canyon Press in 2004 (MS 2004-17).
Copper Canyon Press Records, 1973-2006 (Cage 708)
Sam Hamill Papers, 1972-2001 (Cage 700)
Sam Hamill and Tina and Marianne Wolfe Correspondence, 1972-1977 (Cage 5136)
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Hamill, Sam, 1943-2018
Swenson, Tree, 1951-
Copper Canyon Press -- Records and correspondence
Poetry
Publishers and publishing -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- Archives
Small presses -- Northwest, Pacific
Authors and publishers -- Northwest, Pacific
Booksellers' catalogs -- Specimens
Book design
Literature
Publishers and Publishing
Washington (State)
Preliminary Inventory
1
Copper Canyon Press catalogs
2-4
Mixed contents: unlabeled manuscripts,
book production files
5
Business records and book production
files. Includes consortium inventories, reports, correspondence, and
unlabeled materials
6
Unlabeled materials (unsolicited
manuscript submissions?)
8
[vacant]
9
Unlabeled materials: mixed contents,
including manuscripts and book production files
10
Unlabeled book production
files
11-14
Unlabeled manuscripts and book production
files
15-17
Book production files (most
unlabeled)
18
[vacant]
19
Bound volumes. Some Copper Canyon Press
titles (mainly uncorrected proofs), and some non-CCP.
20
Book production: material samples (boards
and cloth), unbound gatherings from Braided Creek by Jim Harrison and
Ted Kooser
21-23
Unlabeled book production
files
24
Unlabeled book production files and
unsolicited manuscripts submissions
25
Labeled business files, including planning
and board materials
26
[vacant]
27
Copper Canyon Press catalogs (many
duplicates), and miscellaneous materials
28-31
Unlabeled book production
files
32
Unlabeled book production files and mixed
material
33-34
Unlabeled book production
files
35-39
[vacant]
40
Unlabeled book production files and bound
uncorrected proofs
41
Mixed: unlabeled book production files,
Centrum, other
42
Mixed: manuscripts, audio
recordings
43
Mixed: correspondence, bound volumes
(non-CCP), manuscripts (including Hamill)
44
Mixed: unsolicited manuscript submissions,
bound volumes (CCP and non-CCP)
45
Mixed: correspondence, manuscripts, bound
volumes (CCP)
47
Bound volumes: CCP (many duplicates),
catalogs, manuscripts
48
Mixed: unsolicited manuscript submissions,
unlabeled book production files
49
[vacant]
50-52
Unlabeled book production
files
53
Catalog production files
54-55
[vacant]
56-59
Sam Hamill materials