http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/12/2008-american-book-awards/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/12/2008-american-book-awards/#comment-6341 Kim McMillon Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:27:12 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1190#comment-6341 Complete List of 2008 American Book Award Winners The Before Columbus Foundation announces Winners of the Twenty-Eighth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (The Penguin Press) Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Doubleday) Jonathan Curiel, Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots (The New Press) Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black, Anooshi Lingit Aani Ka/Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804 (University of Washington Press) Maria Mazziotti Gillian, All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions Inc.) Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (HarperCollins) C.S. Giscombe, Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive Press) Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go: A Novel (TriQuarterly) L. Luis Lopez, Each Month I Sing (Farolito Press) Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Fae Myenne Ng, Steer Toward Rock (Hyperion) Yuko Taniguchi, The Ocean in the Closet (Coffee House Press) Lorenzo Thomas, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, editor, Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition (University of Michigan Press) Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (South End Press) Lifetime Achievement Award: J.J. Phillips Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale Complete List of 2008 American Book Award Winners
The Before Columbus Foundation announces
Winners of the Twenty-Eighth Annual
AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS
Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (The Penguin Press)
Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Doubleday)
Jonathan Curiel, Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots (The New Press)
Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black, Anooshi Lingit Aani Ka/Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804 (University of Washington Press)
Maria Mazziotti Gillian, All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions Inc.)
Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (HarperCollins)
C.S. Giscombe, Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive Press)
Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go: A Novel (TriQuarterly)
L. Luis Lopez, Each Month I Sing (Farolito Press)
Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Fae Myenne Ng, Steer Toward Rock (Hyperion)
Yuko Taniguchi, The Ocean in the Closet (Coffee House Press)
Lorenzo Thomas, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, editor, Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition (University of Michigan Press)
Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (South End Press)
Lifetime Achievement Award:
J.J. Phillips
Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale

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