Here are the 2011 Ohioana Book Award Finalist for Best Poetry.
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Best Poetry
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How to Catch a Falling KnifeAuthor: Johnson, Daniel
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Nominated for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award for Best Poetry Publisher’s Summary: Like an album of photographic negatives, this book is transformed by light, inhabited by family, illness, mortality, and faith. Daniel Johnson hammers plain speech into exquisite song that is celebratory, mysterious, and elegiac. This transfixing collection resounds with what’s left unsaid. From “Hungry for Wonder”: Smoke smeared the sky. the river was burning. but water, brown and crooked |
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The Casanova Chronicles: Poems
Author: Stone, Myrna
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Poetry
Page Count: 72pp.
Pub. Date: July 2010
Publisher: Etruscan Press
Nominated for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award for Best Poetry
Publisher’s Summary:
Voices chafe against circumstances of love, sex, loss, and longing with sometimes humorous, sometimes disasterous results.
Traveler: Poems
Author: Suarez, Lou
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Poetry
Page Count: 79pp.
Pub. Date: April 2010
Publisher: Mid-List Press
Nominated for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award for Best Poetry
Publisher’s Summary:
For Lou Suarez, poetry is a means of asking questions, a method of engaging the world and enriching that experience with a more compassionate understanding.
Clarity and accessibility of language are evident throughout his work, but his poems are vibrantly complex, employing intricate layers of meaning.
The White Museum: Poems
Author: George Bilgere, George Bilgere
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Poetry
Page Count: 80pp.
Pub. Date: January 2010
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Nominated for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award for Best Poetry
Publisher’s Summary:
Once again, George Bilgere has shown that imaginative wonders and deep emotional truths can be achieved with plain, colloquial American speech.
Field of Light and Shadow: Selected and New Poems
Author: Young, David
Format: Hardcover
Type: Poetry
Page Count: 304pp.
Pub. Date: September 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Nominated for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award for Best Poetry
Publisher’s Summary:
A career-spanning volume from one of our most valuable living American poets, offering poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable possibilities of language.
David Young’s settings are at once local and universal — an adolescence in Omaha, late summer on Lake Erie, a sleepless night in the backyard during a meteor shower. He moves with dazzling ease between culture and nature, between the literary and the philosophical, microcosm and macrocosm.
Here are poems on Osip Mandelstam and Chairman Mao, the meaning of boxcars on the track, the beautiful names of the months, and a fox at the field’s edge, charged in each case by Young’s fierce intelligence and candor in the face of grief and loss.
“We float through space. Days pass,” Young writes in “The Portable Earth-Lamp.” “Sometimes we know we are part of a crystal / where light is sorted and stored.” His metaphysical reach, balancing remarkable humility with penetrating vision, is one of the great gifts of this exemplary career in poetry.
The 2011 Ohioana Book Award Nominations Series:
Part 1 — Best Fiction
Part 2 — Best Non-Fiction
Part 3 — About Ohio
Part 4 — Best Poetry
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