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

[Bob Grumman]

Thanks for the nomination for poetry award judge, Jeff.  Thumbs down 
from me on everything David gives a thumbs up to.  Otherwise, I'll go 
with Anny.  Without reading anything, or referring to Jim's judgements, 
which might confuse me.

What I really think would be fun and useful would be some kind of award 
to best collection of poetry put out by a publisher whose titles have 
never won a BigName Award.  Which brings up the question of chapbooks.  
I know of a lot of chapbooks that I consider much more impressive than 
most full books.  One of the prejudices of the establishment is its 
apparent belief that only full-length books count.  I guess you can get 
away with paperback now, but for a long time you could not.

--Bob