Annal:1999 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1999. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Blizzard of One: Poems
- 1999 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- Score: 10.49
Strand’s poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with “the weather of leavetaking,” but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. Blizzard of One is an extraordinary book—the summation of…
- 1998 LATimes–Poetry winner
- 1999 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- Score: 16.48
Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist.
In this volume, memories of her childhood in the California desert spring to life through evocative renderings of the American landscape, circa 1950. Likewise, her coming of age as a poet in the turbulent sixties is evoked through the era’s angry, creative energy. As she looks backward with the perspective that time and age allows, Notley ably captures the…
Going Fast: Poems
- 1999 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.49
In his sixth collection of poems, Frederick Seidel continues to create the inventive, often brutal verse that has brought his work passionate acclaim. Seidel’s elegantly assured work juxtaposes political and aesthetic realities of the postmodern world in constantly disruptive and uncompromising images that are eerie, disturbing, and remarkably beautiful.
The poems in Going Fast are set in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Bologna, and Tahiti.
