2009 American Book Awards

Oct 11, 2009

Before Columbus Foundation

The 30th Annual American Book Awards were presented by the Before Columbus Foundation. The awards honor books void of restrictions, hence there are no categories or nominees and the awards are given to writers by other writers. The winners were, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil .. Read More
The 30th Annual American Book Awards were presented by the Before Columbus Foundation. The awards honor books void of restrictions, hence there are no categories or nominees and the awards are given to writers by other writers. The winners were, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era (Columbia University Press); Danit Brown, Ask for a Convertible (Pantheon); Jericho Brown, Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose); José Antonio Burciaga, The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga, edited by Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón (University of Arizona Press); Claire Hope Cummings, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds (Beacon Press); Stella Pope Duarte, If I Die in Juarez (The University of Arizona Press); Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press); Suheir Hammad, Breaking Poems (Cypher Books); Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder (Pantheon Books); George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press); Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo (University of New Mexico Press); Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Wesleyan University Press); and a Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Miguel Algarin. The event took place at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City.

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00:00:36 Unidentified Speaker FED CHAIRMAN OF OUR BOARD IS THE AUTHOR OF OF THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF OUR PRESIDENT...
00:05:03 Unidentified Speaker DID HE BEING AND WELCOME TO THE NUYORICAN POETS CAFE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS BEHALF WHICH LIKE TO...
00:08:55 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. SOMEBODY HAVING A METEORIC RISE IS A CLICHE BUT THIS CERTAINLY APPLIES TO MR. OF THE KU...
00:12:07 Unidentified Speaker HELLO. EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. IT IS MY HONOR AND PLEASURE TO BE HERE AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE BEFORE...
00:16:49 Unidentified Speaker THEY Q2 ISHMAEL FOR SAVING MY HALLMARK. THEY Q2 EVERYBODY I 12 TRY TO AVOID A DEDUCTIONS BECAUSE...
00:23:13 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE PREDECESSORS I HAVE WROTE A SPEECH BUT I WILL NOT DELIVER IT BECAUSE...
00:32:11 Unidentified Speaker IT IS AN HONOR TO BE HERE AND I KIND OF NERVOUS AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOUNDATION FOR THIS...
00:42:56 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. THE NEXT AWARD WINNER IS JERICHO BROWN FOR HIS COLLECTION OF POEMS. [APPLAUSE] AND IT SEEMS...
00:43:50 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU SO MUCH. I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS. I AM...
00:50:19 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. YEAH, DON'T FORGET THAT CERTIFICATE. [LAUGHTER] WE USED TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD PLAQUES, BUT...
00:52:11 Unidentified Speaker ARIANA MIMI BLASTEMA.
00:52:13 Unidentified Speaker I AM DANIEL.
00:52:17 Unidentified Speaker AND THIS IS JOSE ANTONIA BURCIAGA.
00:52:23 Unidentified Speaker HE IS WITH US TONIGHT.
00:52:24 Unidentified Speaker ONE OF THE REVIEWERS OF THE BOOK SAID THAT TONY'S WOULD MAKE A BIOGRAPHER JOE -- CENTRAL AND HE DID...
00:57:46 Unidentified Speaker I'M GOING TO READ A SHORT EXCERPT FROM AN ESSAY. [LAUGHTER] I GUESS YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. ACTUALLY...
01:00:06 Unidentified Speaker OF LEVERS THAT LIVE FAR AWAY FROM EACH OTHER. [SPEAKING SPANISH] IT IS ALSO DEFINED HAS PUBIC HAIR...
01:03:04 Unidentified Speaker SORRY PAR I HAVE TALL GENETICS IT IS A PROBLEM ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. HOT OF THE NEXT AWARD WINNER...
01:04:42 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS SUCH AN HONOR. THANK YOU TO THE BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION AND I AM HONORED TO BE HERE WITH...
01:17:54 Unidentified Speaker AND FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE TECHNOLOGY AGE, WE FORGOT TO FINISH THIS AT THE VERY BEGINNING TO ANOTHER...
01:19:48 Unidentified Speaker I AM AMAZED TO BE HERE TO BE PART OF THE LEGACY OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS FROM THE VERY FIRST TIME...
01:23:11 Unidentified Speaker SINCE ITS FOUNDING ON THE BLACK SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO IN 1965 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICIANS KNOWN...
01:29:42 Unidentified Speaker THEY GIVE. THANK YOU THAT REMINDS ME OF EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC OF YOUR A ROCK MUSICIAN JUST PLAY OUT ...
01:36:48 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS REALLY GOING TO BE SURE TO. I LOVE QUIET SPEECHES. THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD, TO READ THE RECOGNITION?...
01:37:22 Unidentified Speaker NO. I HAVE A VOICE. AND THE SIMPLE LANGUAGE OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD OF DID NOT EXIST IN THE NUYORICAN...
01:39:22 Unidentified Speaker I THINK WE HAVE A THEME RUNNING. WE WILL JUMP AROUND A LITTLE MORE BECAUSE WE HAVE RESPECT FOR CHILDREN....
01:40:58 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU SPELL MY NAME RIGHT? YOU DID? THANK YOU.
01:41:07 Unidentified Speaker JUST LIKE IT SOUNDS.
01:41:10 Unidentified Speaker I NEVER WRITE ANYTHING DOWN BUT I WANTED TO WRITE DOWN MY THANKS SPECIFICALLY. THAT IS MY NIECE. DO...
01:43:00 Unidentified Speaker ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT THEY COULD STAND ON THEIR OWN SO I WILL READ IT BACKWARDS....
01:43:53 Unidentified Speaker LET ME READ ANOTHER PAUL M.. YOU CAN PICK A NUMBER PRECOCIOUS DIGEST GIVE IT TO HIM? FIRST BRUSH...
01:46:05 Unidentified Speaker
01:46:25 Unidentified Speaker I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT PEOPLE REFERRED TO THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS AS ONE OF THOSE STRANGE AWARDS THAT...
01:48:18 Unidentified Speaker I AM ALL CONFUSED. PARTLY BECAUSE IT IS LATE AND WE'RE SECRETLY THINKING WE NEED TO GET THE SHOW DONE...
01:52:25 Unidentified Speaker I KNEW THIS WAS A WEIRD DAY. THIS IS A NEW YORK POEM CALLED LIES AND LONGING. THIS IS ABOUT A WOMAN'S...
01:54:18 Unidentified Speaker EIGHT TO DEER ON THE SLOPE OF THE SUMMER MORNING BEST. THAT NIGHT SKY BLUE. ME LIKE A MAYOR LED OUT...
01:56:02 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. ONE THING I DO HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO EVERYBODY SO MANY OF THE AUTHORS CAME OUT. THERE...
01:59:04 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. THANKS TO THE AMERICAN AND A BOOK AWARD FOR HONORING THE WORK OF JACK SPICER AND HIS PROJECT...
02:04:43 Unidentified Speaker I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING THIS EVENING. AND FOR HANGING IN THERE AND TO ALL THE AUTHORS I...
02:05:04 Unidentified Speaker [INAUDIBLE]
02:05:05 Unidentified Speaker YES. MY OLD PROFESSOR HERE -- [LAUGHTER] -- I'M NOT DONE YET. I WANT TO ALSO THANK C-SPAN FOR COVERING...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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