We are thrilled to announce that Martha Ronk’s Transfer of Qualities is among 10 long-listed books of poetry for the 2013 National Book Award.
Five finalists will be announced on October 16. The awards ceremony will be held on November 20 in New York.
The full list of poetry nominees:
- Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Roger Bonair-Agard, Bury My Clothes (Haymarket)
Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion (Knopf)
Andrei Codrescu, So Recently Rent a World (Coffee House)
Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan University)
Adrian Matejka, The Big Smoke (Penguin)
Diane Raptosh, American Amnesiac (Etruscan)
Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture (Louisiana State University)
Martha Ronk, Transfer of Qualities (Omnidawn)
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems (Graywolf Press)
Transfer of Qualities was also selected as one of Publishers Weekly‘s best books of 2013
Read the starred review here!