Annal:2000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
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Results of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Reign of Snakes: Poems
- 2000 Kingsley Tufts winner
- Score: 10.5
One of America’s most accomplished poets takes his readers on an evocative journey in his latest collection. Described by the late James Dickey as “one of the finest new poets to come along in years,” Robert Wrigley fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. Reign of Snakes is a book about desire, the soul’s desire as much as the body’s. As Jane Hirshfield said of Wrigley’s previous book, In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin, 1995), “To read it is to unpeel a little further into the human, and into the wideness that holds the…
