National Book Awards shortlist for Poetry 2017

Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power.

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Hardback

In the Language of My Captor

Shane McCrae

Poems about captivity, escape, and the possibility of freedom

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

The Book of Endings

Leslie Harrison

The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence-the death of the author’s mother, the absence…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

Whereas: Poems

Layli Long Soldier

Whereas confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and…