Thursday night, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominees were announced . . . in New York. The poetry finalists are:
• Erin Belieu for Black Box (Copper Canyon Press)
• Adrian C. Louis for Logorrhea (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press)
• Thom Satterlee for Burning Wyclif (Texas Tech University Press)
• Frederick Seidel for Ooga-Booga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Michael Waters for Darling Vulgarity (BOA Editions)
Ooga-Booga (also nominated for the
National Book Critics Circle Award) makes us ask this trivia question: Name another poetry collection in which the second word differs from the first by only one letter (either one more, one less, or one different).
Though it's not yet published, Sabrina Orah Mark's next book is titled "Tsim Tsum." What do I win?
Tim Seibles has a hilarious book called *Hurdy-Gurdy* -- is that the one you're thinking of?
Here's the easy answer: MacLeish's verse play J.B., which won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Blam.
54th Annual Poetry Day: Louise Glück
