1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

Wild Gratitude

Edward Hirsch

An excerpt from the poem, Wild Gratitude: “Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey, And put my fingers into her clean cat’s mouth, And rubbed her swollen belly that will never know kittens, And watched her wriggle onto her side, pawing the air, An…

All of Us Here and Other Poems

Irving Feldman

Cats of the Temple

Brad Leithauser

Sapphics Against Anger

Timothy Steele

The Key to the City

Anne Winters