Goodreads Choice Voting Final Round Underway Until November 27
It’s not too late to vote in one or more of your favorite categories. Of course, I hope you’ll vote on the Poetry finalists!
Disaster: My Poetry Candidate Didn’t Make the Finals!
I said earlier that my vote for best poetry book this year went to Larry Levis’ The Darkening Trapeze. So I was duly horrified to find this book not in the final round. Tears and wailing ensued…
And then I got down to sorting out my options. I could:
- Not vote in the final round. Go home and lick my wounds.
- Vote for my second choice candidate.
- Reconsider all the candidates in the final round.
I went with #2, and voted for Pablo Neruda’s Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems.
The candidates from the first round which remain in this final round are:
Pablo Neruda: Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems
Amanda Lovelace: the princess saves herself in this one
Kwame Alexander: Booked
Robert M. Drake: Beautiful and Damned
Lang Leav: The Universe of Us
Samantha Jayne: Quarter Life Poetry: Poems for the Young, Broke and Hangry
Sierra DeMulder: Today Means Amen
Added in the intervening round and progressing to the final round are:
Alicia Cook: Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately
J. R. Rogue: La Douleur Exquise
You even have time to read some of the finalists if you like, and if your preferred candidate also didn’t make it to the finals!
