An essay collection on African American music and culture that moves across history, criticism, and personal reflection.

A sequence of essays that turns musical thought into cultural history.

A poetic sequence where Navajo tradition and urban life scrape against one another.

An imagistic poetry collection shaped by the friction between tradition and the present.

A historical study of how Italian immigrants in the United States lost, preserved, and negotiated language. It shows how language shaped ethnic identity.

A migration history told through language history.

A nonfiction account of how a family’s life unravels in post-Katrina New Orleans. It braids disaster with institutional violence.

What remains after disaster is more than floodwater.

A hybrid work of poetry and prose about urban sport, movement, and memory. Ordinary scenes take on a slightly unreal charge.

Chasing a ball through the city reveals a different map.

A story collection rooted in Chicano culture around Fresno and Los Angeles. Humor and pain meet in stories that feel local and immediate.

Stories with the smell of place sketch the shape of a city.

A hallucinatory novel in which a cult survivor joins an eccentric investigative team. Faith, doubt, and violence entwine with uneasy humor.

The uncertainty of belief takes on a strange, uncanny shape.

An English rendering of a Chipewyan story cycle dictated in northern Canada in 1928. It preserves the richness of oral tradition and daily life.

A spoken tradition returns to the page.

A novel about Vietnamese-American sisters, family, immigration, and the gaps in self-understanding. Its quiet tension never fully lets go.

The distance between sisters becomes a family story.

An anthology tracing the relationship between the African diaspora and surrealism. Editing and criticism together recover a lineage that had been obscured.

It frees surrealism from a white-centered story.

An anthology of surrealist writings from Africa and the diaspora that maps the breadth of Black surrealism.

A reconsideration of surrealism through race and diaspora.

A large anthology of romantic and postromantic poetry that also highlights experimental forms.

A wide-angle view of the edges and centers of modern poetry.

A duplicate award entry for the same anthology, credited again to a co-recipient. The book is the same third volume edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson.

A co-winner entry that shares the same bibliographic record.

A poetry collection shaped by Hawaiian land, memory, and cultural inheritance. It carries the pride and pain of island life with quiet force.

A book that passes island memory on through poetry.

A poetry collection that gives forceful voice to love, family, politics, and nature. Its directness and vivid imagery stand out throughout.

A collection that combines tenderness with bite.