American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 30 (2009)
Winners
13 peopleAn essayistic critique of black intellectuals who drifted away from civil-rights ideals, rethinking public life and racial politics.
A sharp argument about responsibility, ambition, and the retreat of civil-rights ideals.
A linked short-story collection that follows Osnat as she moves between Tel Aviv and Michigan and struggles with belonging.
A story about searching for a place to belong across countries and generations.
A poetry collection that compresses love, violence, race, nation, and sexuality into intense, rhythmic language.
Sharp, musical language braids together desire and pain.
An anthology of José Antonio Burciaga’s work that preserves the humor, art, and cultural force of his Chicano writing.
A selected works volume that also serves as a cultural archive.
A nonfiction work that examines how genetic engineering affects the future of seeds and reconsiders agriculture and food sovereignty.
It looks closely at the boundary between technology and ethics in the world of seeds.
If I Die in Juarez is a nonfiction that explores history and background and offers substantial reading.
It leaves a quiet afterglow through history and background.
All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems is a poetry collection that explores the rhythm of language and emotional shifts and offers substantial reading.
It leaves a quiet afterglow through the rhythm of language and emotional shifts.
Breaking Poems is a poetry collection that explores the rhythm of language and emotional shifts and offers substantial reading.
It leaves a quiet afterglow through the rhythm of language and emotional shifts.
The Age of Wonder is a nonfiction that explores science and imagination in the Romantic era and offers substantial reading.
It leaves a quiet afterglow through science and imagination in the Romantic era.
A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music is a music history that explores the AACM and American experimental music and offers substantial reading.
It leaves a quiet afterglow through the AACM and American experimental music.
A novel in which a young woman returning to her family’s Mexican hometown confronts memory, family rupture, and identity.
A search for the shape of family memory amid loss and change.
A collected edition of Jack Spicer’s poetry that gathers published poems, fragments, and notebooks into a single volume.
A gathered body of work that lets Spicer’s voice be read anew.