1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

The Winner and Nominees for the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry book award.

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner

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
Carol Muske-Dukes
Natal Command
Peter Sacks
Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997
James Galvin
The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems
Tomaz Salamun, Christopher Merrill
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