The National Book Foundation has revealed its Longlist for the 2014 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. The finalists will be announced on October 15. Here’s more from the release:
The Longlisted books range in style and content: from a single elegiac narrative poem to a provocative examination of race relations told in an experimental fusion of lyric, prose poems, and image. Among the poets on this year’s Longlist are two former National Book Award Finalists, two former Poets Laureate of the United States, a Pulitzer Prize winner, two Bollingen recipients, a Los Angeles Times Book Award winner, and a Whiting Writers’ Award winner.
2014 Longlist For Poetry
Linda Bierds, Roget’s Illusion
G. P. Putnam’s Sons/ Penguin Group (USA)
Brian Blanchfield, A Several World
Nightboat Books
Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edward Hirsch, Gabriel: A Poem
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House
Fanny Howe, Second Childhood
Graywolf Press
Maureen N. McLane, This Blue
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fred Moten, The Feel Trio
Letter Machine Editions
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
Graywolf Press
Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Mark Strand, Collected Poems
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House