Annal:1992 National Book Award for Poetry
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Results of the National Book Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1992 NBA–Poetry winner
- Score: 10.42
Mary Oliver received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 for American Primitive, and her poems continue to delight a wide and ever-growing audience. Now, in New and Selected Poems, Oliver makes a representative collection of her work over the past twenty-seven years available for the first time. This volume includes thirty new poems as well as selections from her eight previously published books. Mary Oliver’s perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from…
Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991
- 1992 NBCC–Poetry winner
- 1992 NBA–Poetry finalist
- Score: 16.42
Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 presents all the lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poetry the poet has chosen from the past forty-five years, including a section of new poems not found in his previous twenty-two books. It is an extraordinary literary event.
Hayden Carruth has been one of the most widely published and admired American poets for many years. Noted for the breadth of his linguistic and formal resources, influenced by jazz and the blues, Carruth gives his poems—whether sexual political, or narrative—a philosophical…
No Nature: New and Selected Poems
- 1992 NBA–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.42
“The greatest of living nature poets. . . . It helps us to go on, having Gary Snyder in our midst.”—Los Angeles Times. Snyder is the author of many volumes of poetry and prose, including The Practice of the Wild and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island.
Rapture: Poems
- 1993 Kingsley Tufts winner
- 1992 NBA–Poetry finalist
- Score: 16.43
Rapture is the newest collection from a remarkable voice in American poetry. Susan Mitchell’s poems are about self-discovery, and how memory and experience blend to lead us to newer, more realized and complex selves. Mitchell’s gift is her ability to see, with humor and acuity, the extraordinary within the commonplace. Whether listening to a jazz pianist reaching for new sounds as he lingers over a hotel piano or recalling a runaway child on a bus trip across America, Mitchell guides us into a world of her narratives, a world in which she creates her…
- 1993 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- 1992 LATimes–Poetry finalist
- 1992 NBA–Poetry finalist
- Score: 22.43
The Wild Iris was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1991. Louise Cluck’s first four collections consistently returned to the natural world, to the classical and biblical narratives that arose to explain the phenomena of this world, to provide meaning and to console. Ararat, her fifth book, offered a substitution for the received: a demotic, particularized myth of contemporary family. Now in The Wild Iris, her most important and accomplished collection to date, ecstatic imagination supplants both empiricism and tradition,…
