Annal:2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Different Hours: Poems
- 2001 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- Score: 10.51
A wise and graceful new collection by one of our “major, indispensable poets” (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment—these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn’s eleventh volume. “I am interested in exploring the ‘different’ hours,” he says, “not only of one’s life, but also of the larger historical and philosophical life beyond the personal.”
Pursuit of a Wound: Poems
- 2001 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.51
Co-winner of the prestigious Poets’ Prize for his collection To the Bone, Sydney Lea is known for his mastery of the narrative style and his clear and unwavering vision of the natural world and humanity’s place in it. His latest work, Pursuit of a Wound, is marked by this acuity and by his uncanny ear for language as well as his willingness to speak for the unlucky and the dispossessed.
Delving in equal measure into the flinty northern New England landscape and the exiled souls of ordinary people, Pursuit of a Wound moves beyond Lea’s…
- 2001 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- 2000 NBA–Poetry finalist
- Score: 12.51
“The Other Lover” is a collection of bittersweet American love poems. Writing with jazz-like verbal panache, Bruce Smith reaches for the paradoxical pulls between sweetness and bitterness. With carefully crafted rhyming stanzas and unpredictable free verse rhythms, these poems bristle and pop like riffs of a virtuoso hornplayer. The book is a personal, passionate, disturbing collection that places the reader both inside and outside the poet’s life. Deftly filtering personal experiences through improvisatory structures and a wide range of idioms, Smith…
