The National Book Foundation has revealed its Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry for the National Book Award (NBA).
Below, we’ve collected free samples of all the books on the longlist for your reading pleasure after the jump. The finalists will be announced on Oct. 14. Here’s more from the release:
Included among the poets are two former National Book Award Winners, a former National Book Award Finalist, a Whiting Writers’ Award winner, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and two Cave Canem Fellows.
2015 Longlist For Poetry
- 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)