The thirty-year relationship between Copper Canyon Press and the Lannan Foundation began with a printing error. When poet Hayden Carruth’s 1992 book Collected Shorter Poems arrived at the press’s headquarters with a table of contents printed out of order—after he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and became a finalist for the National Book Award—the philanthropist J. Patrick Lannan Jr. came to the rescue with several thousand dollars to finance a reprinting.
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