Friday, March 29

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerHalf the World in LightJuan Felipe HerreraNow, in this unprecedented collection, we encounter the trajectory of this highly innovative and original writer, bringing the full scope of his singular vision into view....Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistSleeping It Off in Rapid CityAugust KleinzahlerAmazonHuman Dark With SugarBrenda ShaughnessyAmazonSourcesDevin JohnstonAmazonThe LandscapistPierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery)Amazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Bird CatcherMarie PonsotIn 1998, Marie Ponsot was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, confirming the praise that has been bestowed on her by critics and peers--among them Eavan Boland and Carolyn Kizer (who are quoted on the back of the book jacket) and Amy...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistLast Chance for the Tarzan HollerThylias MossAmazonSelf-EvidencePamela White HadasAmazonThe Autobiography of Red: A Novel in VerseAnn CarsonAmazonThieves of ParadiseYusef KomunyakaaAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1999 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerOrdinary WordsRuth StoneOrdinary Words, Ruth Stone's new collection of poems, is the recipient of The Academy of American Poets Eric Mathieu King Award. Written between 1995 and 1998, this collection of formal and free verse profoundly responds to our century's closure. Poems tak...Amazon1999 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistDailies & RushesSusan KingsolvingAmazonDivaRafael CampoAmazonHIV, Mon AmourTory DentAmazonOn the Bus With Rosa ParksRita DoveAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerCarolina Ghost WoodsJudy JordanWintry in tone, titles and topics--"Ice molds my life" as one poem puts it--Jordan's debut scours the wooded terrain for metaphors of death ("It's dirt and dust after all") and trolls her family history for murders, suicides, threats and promises of the en...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistMen in the Off HoursAnne CarsonAmazonTalking Dirty to the GodsYusef KomunyakaaAmazonThe LedgeMichael CollierAmazonUltima ThuleDavis McCombsAmazon
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSaving LivesAlbert GoldbarthA collection of poems ranges from serious and personal topics to odd historical facts....Amazon2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Treatise on PoetryCzeslaw MiloszAmazonAnimal SoulBob HicokAmazonGiven Sugar, Given SaltJane HirshfieldAmazonThe Seven AgesLouise GlückAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerEarly Occult Memory Systems of the Lower MidwestB.H. FairchildAmazon2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistLeaving SaturnMajor JacksonAmazonSleeping With the DictionaryHarryette MullenAmazonThe Unswept RoomSharon OldsAmazonWithout End: New and Selected PoemsAdam ZagajewskiAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2003 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerColumbariumSusan StewartWinner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in the category of poetry. In her long-awaited fourth book of poetry, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Mode...Amazon2003 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBlue HourCarolyn ForcheAmazonGrantedMary SzybistAmazontranslated by Marilyn Hacker, She SaysVenus Khoury-GhataAmazonWhat Narcissism Means to MeTony HoaglandAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2004 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004Adrienne Rich"Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right."--Booklist, starred review In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first c...Amazon2004 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistCocktailsD.A. PowellAmazonDanger on PeaksGary SnyderAmazonInterglacialJames RichardsonAmazonThe OrchardBrigit Pegeen KellyAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2005 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerRefusing HeavenJack GilbertMore 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...Amazon2005 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBent to the EarthBlas Manuel de LunaAmazonCrushRichard SikenAmazonThe Incentive of the MaggotRon SlateAmazonThe ShoutSimon ArmitageAmazon
2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerTom Thomson in PurgatoryTroy Jollimore...Amazon2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistMy Brother is Getting Arrested AgainDaisy FriedAmazonNot for Specialists: New and Selected PoemsW.D. SnodgrassAmazonOoga-BoogaFrederick SeidelAmazonPoems (1945-1971)Miltos SachtourisAmazon