2009 American Book Awards

Richard Holmes

Honored for : The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Jack Spicer

Honored for : My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

Stella Pope Duarte

Honored for : If I die in Jua?rez

George Lewis

Honored for : A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music

Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Honored for : Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era

José Antonio Burciaga

Honored for : The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga

Suheir Hammad

Honored for : Breaking Poems

Danit Brown

Honored for : Ask for a Convertible

Jericho Brown

Honored for : Please

Claire Hope Cummings

Honored for : Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds

Patricia Santana

Honored for : Ghosts of El Grullo

Miguel Algarín

Linda Gregg

Honored for : All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems