2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner
![Refusing Heaven](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580966699-2553-image-3.jpg)
Refusing Heaven
Jack Gilbert
More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the…
2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Shortlist
![Bent to the Earth](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580871831-729-image-3.jpg)
Bent to the Earth
Blas Manuel de Luna
![Crush](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581030247-6333-image-3.jpg)
Crush
Richard Siken
![The Incentive of the Maggot](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581008261-4521-image-3.jpg)
The Incentive of the Maggot
Ron Slate
![The Shout](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580960902-2075-image-3.jpg)