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

[Jeff Newberry]

You know what we ought to do as a list?

Put together our own National Book Awards.  We'll need judges, of course, to
sift through the nominated books and put together a short list.  I nominated
David Graham, Bob Grumman, Jim Finnegan, and Anny Ballardrini as judges.

I haven't bought enough books of poetry this year to put together a good
list of nominees, but I'll throw out a couple names:  I second Ander
Monson's book.  He's always an interesting poet.  I'll also second Paul
Guest's book.  I'll also nominate Mary Biddinger's Prarie Fever.  I believe
that it came out this year.

Any takers?

Jeff



On 10/13/07, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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