Annal:1993 Walt Whitman Award
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Results of the Walt Whitman Award in the year 1993. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1993 Walt Whitman winner
- Score: 10.43
Alison Hawthorne Deming brings to her first collection of verse the kinds of scrupulous observation and clear-eyed analysis that characterize scientific inquiry as well as a poet’s eye for the telling moment. Science and Other Poems establishes astonishing parallels between the mute, inexorable processes of the physical universe and the dark mysteries of the human heart, parallels so clearly wrought and convincing that we wonder why we had not recognized them before.
“Caffe Trieste” lays bare the unexamined terror and sorrow that underlie the…
