Moving on to the ten books on the BTBA longlist for poetry, here are a four facts/clues:

Each of the ten collections is published by a different publisher—no one has two books on the list;

The ten collections are by authors from ten different countries, and translated from seven different languages;

Four of the books on the list are by female poets.

Theoretically, it should be easier to figure out which books are on this list than the fiction one. Nevertheless, if you guess all ten correctly and email me at chad.post@rochester.edu, I’ll give you a lifetime subscription to Open Letter. Bring on the guesses!

Without further ado, here’s the list of longlisted titles for this year’s award:

by Rainer Brambach, translated from the German by Esther Kinsky (Switzerland, Seagull Books)

by Rocío Cerón, translated from the Spanish by Anna Rosenwong (Mexico, Phoeneme)

by Najwan Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Palestine, NYRB)

by Suzanne Doppelt, translated from the French by Cole Swenson (France, Litmus Press)

by André du Bouchet, translated from the French by Paul Auster and Hoyt Rogers (France, Yale University Press)

by Jean Frémon, translated from the French by Cole Swensen (France, Omnidawn)

edited and translated from the Pashto by Eliza Griswold (Afghanistan, FSG)

by Kim Hyesoon, translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi (South Korea, Action Books)

by Venus Khoury-Ghata, translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker (Lebanon, Curbstone)

by Valerie Mejer, translated from the Spanish by A. S. Zelman-Doring, Forrest Gander, and C.D. Wright (Mexico, Action Books)

by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert (Argentina, Ugly Duckling)

by Lev Rubinstein, translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky (Russia, Ugly Duckling)

by Olga Sedakova, translated from the Russian by Caroline Clark, Ksenia Golubovich, and Stephanie Sandler (Russia, Open Letter)

by Tomaž Šalamun, translated from the Slovenian by Michael Thomas Taren (Slovenia, Dalkey Archive)

by Farhad Showghi, translated from the German by Rosmarie Waldrop (Germany, Burning Deck)

by Frank Smith, translated from the French by Vanessa Place (France, Les Figues)

by Hsia Yü, translated from the Chinese by Steve Bradbury (Taiwan, Zephyr Press)