Annal:1983 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1983. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1983 NBA–Poetry winner
- 1983 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- Score: 20.33
That Silent Evening
I will go back to that silent evening
when we lay together and talked in silent voices,
while outside slow lumps of soft snow
fell, hushing as they got near the ground,
with a fire in the room, in which centuries
of tree went up in continuous ghost-giving-up,
without a crackle, into morning light.
Not until what hastens went slower did we sleep.
When we got home we turned and looked back
at our tracks twining out of the woods,
where the branches we brushed against let fall…
