Annal:1985 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
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Results of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in the year 1985. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
A Wave: Poems
- 1985 Lenore Marshall winner
- Score: 10.35
First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, A Wave is widely considered one of Ashbery’s finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here—particularly the long title-poem—find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and often hilarious sensibility to the mysterious and incessant curves and crests of love, art, thought, experience, and selfhood.
