Sunday, December 1

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerWhat Work Is: PoemsPhilip LevineWinner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and l...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistRegion of UnlikenessJorie GrahamAmazonStar LedgerLynda HullAmazonSudden Dreams: New and Selected PoemsGeorge EvansAmazonThe World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990Charles WrightAmazon
1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerAn Atlas of the Difficult WorldAdrienne RichWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry....Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistBread Without Sugar: PoemsGerald SternAmazonSub Rosa: PoemsSusan ProspereAmazonThe Father: PoemsSharon OldsAmazonThe Wild IrisLouise GlückAmazon
1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerMy Alexandria: PoemsMark DotyA book about mortality, the mortal weight of AIDS in particular....Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistAfterworldChristine GarrenAmazonHotel Insomnia: A NovelCharles SimicAmazonLegends from Camp: PoemsLawson Fusao InadaAmazonNeon Vernacular: New and Selected PoemsYusef KomunyakaaAmazon
1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Angel of HistoryCarolyn ForchéPlaced in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems re...Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistBag O' Diamonds: PoemsSusan WheelerAmazonLost CountryDan HowellAmazonMaterialism: PoemsJorie GrahamAmazonThe Blood of the Poet: Selected PoemsWilliam EversonAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Inferno of Dante: A New Verse TranslationRobert PinskyA translation of the classic poem about man's spiritual journey...Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistCity of SaltGregory OrrAmazonNew and Selected PoemsGary SotoAmazonSong: PoemsBrigit Pegeen KellyAmazonSplit Horizon: PoemsThomas LuxAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerMixed CompanyAlan ShapiroRespected poet, teacher, and critic Alan Shapiro continues his much-acclaimed explorations of childhood, family, and marriage in Mixed Company. Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, and with equal attention to histor...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994Jorie GrahamAmazonMeadowlandsLouise GlückAmazonPassing Through: The Later Poems, New and SelectedStanley KunitzAmazonThe Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996Robert PinskyAmazonThe Terrible Stories: PoemsLucille CliftonAmazonThe World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996James McMichaelAmazonThings That Happen Once: New PoemsRodney Jones...
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerBlack ZodiacCharles WrightWinner 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...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistAn Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected PoemsCarol Muske-DukesAmazonNatal CommandPeter SacksAmazonResurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997James GalvinAmazonThe Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected PoemsTomaz Salamun, Christopher MerrillAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerMysteries of Small HousesAlice NotleyAlice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the Cal...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistAmerican Rush: Selected PoemsMaureen OwenAmazonThe Folding Cliffs: A NarrativeWilliam S. MerwinAmazonThe Shape of the Journey: New and Collected PoemsJim HarrisonAmazonWithout: PoemsDonald HallAmazon