Annal:2001 Griffin Poetry Prize – International
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Results of the Griffin Poetry Prize in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
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Glottal Stop: 101 Poems
Paul Celan, Nikolai Popov, Heather McHugh
- 2001 Griffin International winner
- Score: 10.51
Paul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This selection of poems is comprised of previously untranslated work, opening facets of Celan’s oeuvre never before available to readers of English. These translations, called “perfect in language, music, and spirit” by Yehuda Amichai, work from the implied premise of what has been called Intention auf die Sprache, delivering the spirit of Celan’s work—his dense…
Open Closed Open: Poems
Yehuda Amichai, Chana Bloch, Chana Kronfeld
- 2001 Griffin International shortlist
- Score: 6.51
Amichai writes of the language of love, and tea with roasted almonds, of desire and love. Of a Jewish cemetery whose groundskeeper is an expert on flowers and seasons of the year, but no expert on buried Jews; of Russian shirts embroidered in the colors of love and death; of Jerusalem, the city where everything sails: the flags, the prayer shawls, the caftans, the monks’ robes, the kaffiyehs, and young women’s dresses. The poet tenderly, mischievously, breaks open the grand diction of the revered Jewish verses and supplications and suddenly discovers the light…
Learning Human: Poems
- 2001 Griffin International shortlist
- Score: 6.51
A Collection of Les Murray’s poetry that reveals the variety, intensity, and generosity of this great Australian poet’s work.
I starred last night, I shone:
I was footwork and firework in one, a rocket that wriggled up and shot
darkness with a parasol of brilliants
and a peewee descant on a flung bit… —from “Performance”
Les Murray is as keenly admired as any poet working today. Joseph Brodsky called him simply “the one by whom the language lives.” Harold Bloom has compared him to Walt Whitman, as well…
Selected Poems: Selected Poems
- 2001 Lenore Marshall winner
- 2001 Griffin International shortlist
- Score: 16.51
One of the best and most respected experimental poets in the United States, Fanny Howe has published more than twenty books, mostly with small presses, and this publication of her selected poems is a major event.
Howe’s theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and the painfully exciting, tiny margin in which movement out of exile is imaginable and perhaps possible. Her best poems are simultaneously investigations of that possibility and protests against the difficulty of salvation.
Boston is the setting of some of the early poems, and Ireland, the…
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