Annal:1996 Walt Whitman Award
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Results of the Walt Whitman Award in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Madonna Anno Domini: Poems
- 1996 Walt Whitman winner
- Score: 10.46
In his first collection, Joshua Clover presents a harrowing poetic manifesto for the coming century. Clover fuses formal control, a solid grounding in poetic tradition (his allusions range from Shakespeare to Dickinson to John Cale), and sheer visionary exhilaration into a technical, moral, aesthetic, and imaginative lexicon that irradiates each page.
The eerie cyberglow of Clover’s lines illuminates a pageant of blurred and fragmented desolation: the Bomb, death camps, the Persian Gulf War, the beating of Rodney King, the whole numbing litany of modern…
