Annal:1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1993. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
My Alexandria: Poems
- 1993 LATimes–Poetry winner
- 1993 NBCC–Poetry winner
- 1993 NBA–Poetry finalist
- Score: 26.43
One of the most highly praised and touching collections of poems to appear in recent years. In selecting it for the National Poetry Series, Philip Levine said: “The courage of this book is that it looks away from nothing: the miracle is that wherever it looks it finds poetry… Mark Doty is a maker of big, risky, fearless poems in which ordinary human experience becomes music.”
Hotel Insomnia: A Novel
- 1993 LATimes–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.43
In this new volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning Charles Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. With empty offices and dolls that smile. With the sound of bare feet upstairs and a single kiss before the shadows converge. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and American present. It is a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise.
- 1993 LATimes–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.43
Lyrical and highly charged, these poems examine the strengths and frailties of the human psyche as it functions under the stress of loss, disappointment and mortality. As the poet struggles with reality’s continuing failure to satisfy basic human needs, she develops a deepened reliance on the imagination as a source of restorative powers.
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
- 1994 Kingsley Tufts winner
- 1994 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- 1993 LATimes–Poetry finalist
- Score: 26.44
A collection of poems from the author’s earlier books combined with a dozen new poems interweave memory and history.
