Annal:1992 Walt Whitman Award
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Results of the Walt Whitman Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Fire in All Things: Poems
- 1992 Walt Whitman winner
- Score: 10.42
Selected by Richard Howard from almost one thousand entries, Stephen Yenser’s The Fire in All Things is the most recent recipient of the Walt Whitman Award, given annually by The Academy of American Poets to honor an outstanding collection of verse by an American poet who has not previously published a book-length collection. The poems in The Fire in All Things are as intricate as vines that intertwine and twist around the trunk of a tree; yet high though the poems climb, each has its roots in the natural world, and in the heart. Ruins,…
