Annal:1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1992 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- Score: 10.42
An award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet.
Selected Poems, James Tate’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his 1986 collection Reckoner. He is a most agile poet in a precarious world. Life is alarming and absurd, but properly considered that absurdity reveals, often with laughter, the something else by which we live. The poems are about our world, our wrecked, vexed…
- 1992 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.42
Here, in a new selection of 200 poems from five decades, is the distinctive voice of Robert Creeley, reminding us of what has made him one of the most important and affectionately regarded poets of our time.
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
- 1992 LATimes–Poetry winner
- 1992 Lenore Marshall winner
- 1992 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- 1991 NBA–Poetry finalist
- Score: 32.42
“This is no place you ever knew me,” writes Adrienne Rich in her major new work, “…These are not the roads/you knew me by.” As always in her forty-year career, this major poet has mapped out new territory , astonishing and enlightening us with her penetrating insight into our lives amid the beauties and cruelties of our difficult world.
