Annal:1995 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
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Results of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Winter Numbers: Poems
- 1995 Lenore Marshall winner
- Score: 10.45
In her seventh volume Marilyn Hacker confronts life and death at the end of our genocidal century, making another extraordinary contribution to the feminist and lesbian canon. Winter Numbers is pervaded by Hacker’s awareness of being an agent in history. The long opening poem, “Against Elegies,” is an impassioned meditation on the scourges of AIDS and cancer among the poet’s friends and contemporaries, and the parallel scourge of social indifference. Other erotically tinged elegies lead to the account of her own battle with breast cancer. Among the many…
