[New-Poetry] Nat'l Book Award 2007 nominees, Poetry

[David Graham]

Al, et al.--


Goldbarth's new-and-selected would definitely be on my 2007 short  
list, as would Graywolf Press.

Other books that impressed me in 2007 (not sure they all have an 07  
pub date) would include Aaron Anstett's *Each Place the Body's*, from  
Ghost Road; Ander Monson's *Vacationland* (Tupelo); Matt Cook's *The  
Unreasonable Slug* (Manic D Press); Ashley Capps's *Mistaking the Sea  
for Green Fields* (U Akron); Paul Guest's *Notes for My Body Double*  
(U Nebraska); Martha Silano's *Blue Positive* (Steel Toe); and Dean  
Young's *Embryoyo* (McSweeney's).  I'm probably forgetting others,  
and as always I'm sure there were many dozens of good ones that  
slipped beneath my radar.

I haven't read it yet, but one of my very favorite poets also  
published a book in 07:  Brendan Galvin's *Ocean Effects* (LSU).  I'm  
giving the National Book Award to him just on general principle.

Also on my Recent Arrivals shelf is Elizabeth Hadaway's *Fire Baton*,  
one of those impulse purchases made after flipping it open & being  
knocked out by several poems.  Never even heard of her before.  Her  
book, like all the above, is not published by FSG or Norton (not that  
there's anything *wrong* with FSG or Norton)--hers arrives from U  
Arkansas, of course.

Haven't seen Rebecca McClanahan's new one yet, but based on past work  
I'm sure I'd like it.

Never heard of Philip Terman:  maybe post a favorite poem, Al?

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On Oct 12, 2007, at 6:05 PM, AlMaginnes at aol.com wrote:

> Kirby's poems are, for me, highly entertaining the first time I  
> read them, but don't give me much reason to come back for seconds.  
> Kind of a less scholarly Goldbarth.
>
> Speaking of whom, I would certainly have been happy to see his new  
> and selected THE KITCHEN SINK from Graywolf get a nod. Also, Leslie  
> Adrienne Miller's The Resurrection Trade, also from Graywolf.  
> Philip Terman's Rabbis of the Air from Autumn House is a delight  
> and deserves more attention than it's getting. Rebecca McClanahan's  
> Deep Light: New and Selected from Iris Press is wonderful. Give me  
> an hour or two and I'll think of others.
>
>

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