National Book Award Finalists for poetry:
John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander (Ecco)
Frank Bidart, Star Dust: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Brendan Galvin, Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005
(Louisiana State University Press)
W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
Vern Rutsala, The Moment’s Equation (Ashland Poetry Press)
I hope the woman wins. Oh, wait.
ReplyDeleteExcept for maybe the Bidart, none of these would have been in my top five.
ReplyDeleteI know Ashbery and Merwin, but who are these other folks?
ReplyDeleteLaura, I think the other three are guaranteed runners-up for the National Book Award.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Check out Bidart! His poems are crazy and very interesting.
ReplyDeleteJames. Right on, brother. Where are the GIRLS?
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