1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner
![Black Zodiac](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580870681-634-image-3.jpg)
Black Zodiac
Charles Wright
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace…
1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Shortlist
![An Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected Poems](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
An Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Carol Muske-Dukes
![Natal Command](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580976920-3361-image-3.jpg)
Natal Command
Peter Sacks
![Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580966045-2499-image-3.jpg)
Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997
James Galvin
![The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581018351-5351-image-3.jpg)