Terry Ehret’s latest collection of lyric and prose poems, Lucky Break, has been nominated for the Northern California Book Reviewers Award in poetry. Ehret, also a co-founder Sixteen Rivers Press, served as poet laureate of Sonoma County from 2004 to 2006.
The 28th Annual Northern California Book Awards will be held Sunday, April 19, at Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin at Grove, at 1 p.m. The event features readings by the winning authors and remarks by this year’s Fred Cody Award recipient–novelist, publisher, and playwright Dorothy Bryant.
Here are the 2009 nominees in all the categories:
Fiction
Lady Lazarus, Andrew Foster Altschul, Harcourt
Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain, Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
The Delivery Room, Sylvia Brownrigg, Counterpoint
Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein, Molly Dwyer, Lost Coast Press
No One You Know, Michelle Richmond, Delacorte Press
Poetry
Lucky Break, Terry Ehret, Sixteen Rivers Press
The Date Fruit Elegies, John Olivares Espinoza, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe
Inverse Sky, John Isles, University of Iowa Press
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, New & Selected, August Kleinzahler, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
the true keeps calm biding its story, Rusty Morrison, Ahsahta Press
General Nonfiction
Physics for Future Presidents:The Science Behind the Headline
Richard A. Muller, W.W. Norton
The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Island Press
A Romance on Three Legs:Glenn Gould’s Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
Katie Hafner, Bloomsbury
Towers of Gold:How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
Frances Dinkelspiel, St. Martin’s Press
In Defense of Food:An Eater’s Manifesto
Michael Pollan, The Penguin Press
Creative Nonfiction
Hallelujah Junction:Composing an American Life
John Adams, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Middle Place, Kelly Corrigan, Voice
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
David Sheff, Houghton Mifflin
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy:On Being an American Citizen
Susan Griffin, Trumpeter
Children’s Literature
Steinbeck’s Ghost, Lewis Buzbee, Feiwel & Friends
Just In Case:A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book, Yuyi Morales, Roaring Brook Press
Facts of Life: Stories, Gary Soto, Harcourt Children’s Books
A Life in the Wild:George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts
Pamela S. Turner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Dragon’s Child:A Story of Angel Island
Laurence Yep and Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, HarperCollins
Translation
The Old Man’s Verses, Ivan Divis, Translated from Czech by Deborah Garfinkle,
Host Publications
Odes and Elegies, Friedrich Hölderlin, Translated from German by Nick Hoff
Wesleyan University Press
State of Exile, Cristina Peri Rossi, Translated from Spanish by Marilyn Buck
City Lights Publishers
Senselessness, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver
New Directions
Belonging:New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, Translated from Persian by Niloufar Talebi, North Atlantic Books
Special Recognition Award
Paintings in Proust:A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time
Eric Karpeles, Thames & Hudson
Fred Cody Award For Lifetime Achievement Community & Literature
Novelist, publisher, and playwright Dorothy Bryant
