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Each 2025 National Book Award Short List nominee brings a richly realized voice to the reader.
Some quotations and references for each book:
I Do Know Some Things
"I Do Know Some Things is a brave book, both in content and method."
Scorched Earth: Poems
The striking sophomore poetry collection from the award-winning author of the "beautiful, vulnerable, honest" (Ross Gay, New York Times bestselling author) I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood.
Becoming Ghost: Poetry
Ms. Magazine's Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025 The long-awaited sophomore poetry collection by award-winning writer Cathy Linh Che, on familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.
New Economy
The New Economy memorializes the world's pleasures and perils told through the point of view of an aging, ungendered body. A devotional to the ungendered vessel as it ages, dreams, and survives. A practice of radical collaboration, failure, and renewal.
Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry, a "masterful performer and poet of voices too little heard" (Poetry Foundation).
