Annal:2000 Walt Whitman Award
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Results of the Walt Whitman Award in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Radio, Radio: Poems
- 2000 Walt Whitman winner
- Score: 10.5
“These poems are rebellious, dangerous, ironic, unstable, and deliberate…. They brilliantly articulate the paradoxical, anticlimactic inconsistencies of our postmodern American landscape where, no matter what, ‘the news nine trafficopter hides overhead like a tricky god’.” —Susan Howe, from her judge’s citation
Radio, Radio, Ben Doyle’s first collection, is a book about gaps: between the transmitter and the desired, unimaginable receiver; between the prehistoric insect world and our fast-food, hot-wired culture; between words and what they just…
