Annal:1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
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Results of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in the year 1997. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
- 1997 Lenore Marshall winner
- 1997 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- 1996 LATimes–Poetry finalist
- Score: 22.47
The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.
Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky’s first volume, described this poet’s work as “nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole domain of mute and familiar experience.” Both the transformation of the familiar and the uttering of what has been hitherto mute or implicit in our culture continue to be central to Pinsky’s art. New poems like “Avenue” and “The City Elegies” envision the urban…
