Annal:1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994
- 1996 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- 1996 LATimes–Poetry finalist
- Score: 16.46
For this major collection, spanning twenty years of writing, Jorie Graham has made a generous selection from her five previous volumes of poetry: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, Erosion, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness, and Materialism.
- 1996 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- 1995 NBA–Poetry finalist
- Score: 12.46
The present volume brings to mind again one of the most interesting aspects of Justice’s poetry: his dedication to formal craftsmanship and his use of it in dealing with contemporary matters; so that a recondite poetic form (the pantoum) is made to hold a commentary on the 1930s in the poem called “Pantoum of the Great Depression.”
Chickamauga: Poems
- 1996 Lenore Marshall winner
- 1996 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- Score: 16.46
This volume, Wright’s eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments. Chickamauga is also a virtuoso exploration of the power of concision in lyric poetry—a testament to the flexible music of the long line Wright has made his own. As a reviewer in Library Journal noted: “Wright is one of those rare and gifted poets who can turn thought into music. Following his self-prescribed regimen of purgatio, illuminato, and…
