1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner
![Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581012183-4845-image-3.jpg)
Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
Albert Goldbarth
Focusing with equal energy at the imposing sky and at our own home planet, Albert Goldbarth moves from hosannah-choiring angels to a single peach pit glistening on the tongue of Madame Renoir, from the sweep of the earth’s ecocycles to the particles of qua…
1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Shortlist
![An Atlas of the Difficult World](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580873707-884-image-3.jpg)
An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich
![Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581049293-7634-image-3.jpg)
Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems
Diane Ackerman
![The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected (1979-1991)](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581022602-5702-image-3.jpg)
The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected (1979-1991)
Allen Grossman
![What Work Is](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580845050-58751-image-3.jpg)