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The 2020 National Book Awards Longlist: Poetry - The New Yorker

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This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for the 2020 National Book Awards. On Wednesday, we presented the lists for Young People’s Literature and Translated Literature. Check back this afternoon for Nonfiction.

“The Age of Phillis,” a poetry collection by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, reimagines the life of Phillis Wheatley, a Black poet who achieved literary stardom as an enslaved young woman in colonial Boston. Though Wheatley, who died in 1784, left behind a sizable body of work, much of her biography has been recovered from the memoir of Margaretta Matilda Odell—a white woman who claimed to be a descendant of Susanna Wheatley, the woman who enslaved the poet. “The Age of Phillis,” the product of several years of research in Massachusetts archives, “undoes the whitewashing of Phillis’s story,” Elizabeth Winkler writes. “In some of the poems, language is bracketed and crossed out—a way of representing, through style, Phillis’s elisions, everything she could not say.”

“The Age of Phillis” is on the longlist for this year’s National Book Award in Poetry. It is one of several contenders that observes the violence of empire and excavates histories that have been forgotten or erased. Anthony Cody investigates omissions in the historical record in his collection “Borderland Apocrypha,” Natalie Diaz subverts a traditional form in “Postcolonial Love Poem,” and Don Mee Choi uses translation as a tool for disobedience in “DMZ Colony,” a collection that explores the Korean Demilitarized Zone. The full list is below.

Rick Barot, “The Galleons
Milkweed Editions

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, “A Treatise on Stars
New Directions

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, “Travesty Generator
Noemi Press

Tommye Blount, “Fantasia for the Man in Blue
Four Way Books

Victoria Chang, “Obit
Copper Canyon Press

Don Mee Choi, “DMZ Colony
Wave Books

Anthony Cody, “Borderland Apocrypha
Omnidawn Publishing

Eduardo C. Corral, “Guillotine
Graywolf Press

Natalie Diaz, “Postcolonial Love Poem
Graywolf Press

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “The Age of Phillis
Wesleyan University Press

The judges for the category this year are Rigoberto González, a former Guggenheim Fellow who directs the creative-writing M.F.A. program at Rutgers-Newark; Diana Khoi Nguyen, whose collection “Ghost Of” was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award; Elizabeth Willis, whose collection “Alive” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; John Hennessy, who directs the undergraduate creative-writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Layli Long Soldier, whose collection “Whereas” was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award.

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