The Consequences of Competition: Book Awards and Twenty-first Century Black Poetry

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A New York Times Best Seller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry Winner of the PEN Open Book Award Winner of the VIDA Award in Poetry Winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award in Poetry Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry Winner of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize An NEA Big Read Selection Named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, New York, the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Slate, and Time Out New York.1