Minneapolis publisher Graywolf Press has three books on the National Book Awards long list for poetry, announced today--more than any other publisher. The short list will be announced in October, and the awards will be given in November. Here's the long list:
Daniel Borzutzky, "The Performance of Becoming Human"
Brooklyn Arts Press
Rita Dove, "Collected Poems 1974–2004"
W. W. Norton & Company
Peter Gizzi, "Archeophonics"
Wesleyan University Press
Donald Hall, "The Selected Poems of Donald Hall"
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Jay Hopler, "The Abridged History of Rainfall"
McSweeney's
Donika Kelly, "Bestiary"
Graywolf Press
Jean Mead, "World of Made and Unmade"
Alice James Books
Solmaz Sharif, "Look"
Graywolf Press
Monica Youn, "Blackacre"
Graywolf Press
Kevin Young, "Blue Laws"
Alfred A. Knopf