Annal:2000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
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Results of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
- 2000 Bobbitt Prize winner
- 2000 Lenore Marshall winner
- Score: 20.5
David Ferry’s Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations provides a wonderful gathering of the work of one of the great American poetic voices of the twentieth century. It brings together his new poems and translations, collected here for the first time; his books Strangers and Dwelling Places in their entirety; selections from his first book, On the Way to the Island; and selections from his celebrated translations of the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh, the Odes of Horace, and of Virgil’s Eclogues.…
