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

[Anny Ballardini]

Very flattered to be included in the Rose of Judges, thank you so much, Anny
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  From: Jeff Newberry 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views 
  Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 5:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Nat'l Book Award 2007 nominees, Poetry


  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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