Annal:1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Simple Truth: Poems
- 1995 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- Score: 10.45
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 1995, Philip Levine goes from strength to strength, having received the National Book Ward for Poetry for his earlier book What Work Is. This is the first paperback edition of this text, about which Harold Bloom said, “The controlled pathos of every poem in the volume is immense, and gives me a new sense of Levine.”
Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992
- 1995 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.45
Half a century after “founding” the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg has written this powerful collection of poems that are suffused with a range of emotional colors that gives Ginsberg’s work an elegiac tone.
On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988
- 1995 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.45
In this new selection of the poetry of Kenneth Koch—“one of our greatest poets” (John Ashbery)—Koch’s brilliance, aesthetic daring, and virtuosity are everywhere apparent. Included here are selections from his book-length narrative poems, “Ko” and “The Duplications”, and from his dazzlingly incomprehensible (by ordinary means), fractured epic “When the Sun Tries to Go On”; poetic plays such as “Pericles”, “Guinivere”, “Bertha”, and six of his “One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays”; instructional poems—from “The Art of Love “— in which an old genre is splendidly…
