Day Two of the ever-so-slowly released National Book Award nominee longlists. Poetry got real play today with titles well known and appreciated, titles forthcoming and appealing, and titles obscure and alluring. How many have you read? Here are the books. Be sure to follow the links to reserve them in the EPL system:
- Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press )
- Amy Gerstler, Scattered at Sea (Penguin/Penguin Random House)
- Marilyn Hacker, A Stranger’s Mirror (W. W. Norton & Company)
- Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn (Penguin/Penguin Random House)
- Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions)
- Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Lawrence Raab, Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts (Tupelo Press)
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