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This post is auto-generated from RSS feed BOOK RIOT. Source: A Must-Read National Book Award Finalist That Can Be a Quick Read

There are books that tantalize because they’re both highly praised and slim. Perhaps you want to read every beloved, award-winning book you can get your hands on but feel time slipping through your fingers along with your ability to read even a few great books each year.

One of the major literary awards categories less visited by the readers I know, including me, is poetry. But once in a while, desperate for the satisfaction of getting through an entire book in a short span of time, I reach for one of the thinnest books on my shelves upon shelves of unread books and find a poetry collection in my hand. Recently, I pulled out a Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.

As I pored over the poetry in this collection by one of our great contemporary poets, I found my urgency to reach the end dissipate and my desire to linger over words and meaning take possession.

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