Annal:1991 Walt Whitman Award
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Results of the Walt Whitman Award in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
From the Iron Chair: Poems
- 1991 Walt Whitman winner
- Score: 10.41
This first book of poems was chosen by Charles Wright as the winner of the 1991 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Of his work Greg Glazner has written: “My poems often take as their starting points the landscape of the West—at times immense and impersonal, and at times a ground for human conflict. The sources are various: Texas farm life, suburban aspirations, television, Baptist oratory, northern New Mexico, the Montana wildernesses. But I hope that, finally, my work is about themes: living in the face of death, of violence, of bitterness,…
