Annal:1997 Walt Whitman Award
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Walt Whitman Award in the year 1997. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Bite Every Sorrow: Poems
- 1999 Kate Tufts winner
- 1997 Walt Whitman winner
- Score: 20.49
Whether honoring a dead friend or reveling in the lustful music of insects, whether on a Costa Rican bus “hot enough to contain all desire” or on a BART train abundantly full of experience and memory, whether delighting in the wacky wisdom of kids or ruing the silly hunger of adults, Ras’s poems poke into unlikely nooks and invented crannies. Lines that find their start in the seemingly personal reach out toward questions that matter to everyone, how to laugh, how to hope, how to love.
