http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/nbcc-award-finalists/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:29:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/nbcc-award-finalists/#comment-2331 NEG Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:01:24 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=636#comment-2331 Great to see the small(ish) presses getting their due here! Great to see the small(ish) presses getting their due here!

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/nbcc-award-finalists/#comment-2330 Aaron Fagan Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:39:59 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=636#comment-2330 Interesting choices. Better than a group of usual suspects, but not what I experienced as the most important collections to appear. Each of the above choices show strengths in one of the many ways one wants poems in a collection to work. There were plenty of individual collections that showed significant growth for the art in a number of ways. Cate Marvin's Fragment of the Head of a Queen is just one example of a book that shows some genuine moxie. Interesting choices. Better than a group of usual suspects, but not what I experienced as the most important collections to appear. Each of the above choices show strengths in one of the many ways one wants poems in a collection to work. There were plenty of individual collections that showed significant growth for the art in a number of ways. Cate Marvin’s Fragment of the Head of a Queen is just one example of a book that shows some genuine moxie.

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