This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for the 2021 National Book Awards. On Wednesday, we presented the lists for Young People’s Literature and Translated Literature. Check back this afternoon for Nonfiction.
There is a moment in Forrest Gander’s poem “Post-Fire Forest,” published last spring in The New Yorker, where the speaker tries and fails to find the right word for what he sees while walking through the ruins of a scorched wood: “All that moves / is mist lifting, too indistinct to be called / ghostly.” But the wasteland itself seems to speak with an inalienable clarity, shorn of insincerity or irrelevance. “What / remains of the forest takes place / in the exclamatory mode,” he writes. “Cindered / utterances in a tongue from which / everything trivial has been volatilized, / everything trivial to fire.” The human observer struggles to match the lucidity of the crisis.
“Post-Fire Forest” appears in the collection “Twice Alive,” which has been long-listed for this year’s National Book Award in Poetry. “Twice Alive” is one of several contenders that document the human dimension of environmental and global catastrophe. Jackie Wang’s “The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void,” inspired by the author’s dreams, considers how crisis and trauma can infiltrate the subconscious. Martín Espada’s “Floaters” decries governmental neglect of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and the cruelty faced by migrants from Latin America.
The list was drawn from a total of two hundred and ninety submissions from publishers. Gander is the only nominee who has been previously recognized by the National Book Awards; the other nine contenders are being honored for the first time. The full list is below.
Threa Almontaser, “The Wild Fox of Yemen”
Graywolf Press
Baba Badji, “Ghost Letters”
Parlor Press
Desiree C. Bailey, “What Noise Against the Cane”
Yale University Press
CM Burroughs, “Master Suffering”
Tupelo Press
Andrés Cerpa, “The Vault”
Alice James Books
Martín Espada, “Floaters”
W. W. Norton & Company
Forrest Gander, “Twice Alive”
New Directions
Douglas Kearney, “Sho”
Wave Books
Hoa Nguyen, “A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure”
Wave Books
Jackie Wang, “The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void”
Nightboat Books
The judges for the category this year are A. Van Jordan, a professor for the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, at the University of Michigan, and the author of several poetry collections, including “Rise”; Don Mee Choi, whose book “DMZ Colony” won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry; Natalie Diaz, the author of “When My Brother Was an Aztec” and “Postcolonial Love Poem”; Matthea Harvey, the author of five books of poetry, including “Modern Life”; and Ilya Kaminsky, the author of “Deaf Republic.”
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