Annal:2001 Walt Whitman Award
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Results of the Walt Whitman Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Invisible World: Poems
- 2001 Walt Whitman winner
- Score: 10.51
With “the clarity / of a landscape made of single / grains of sand,” the poems in John Canaday’s The Invisible World invite readers on a journey through an exotic land, as the narrator travels for more than a year in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan before returning home to New England. Swept along by poetry alive to paradox, we encounter a world in which the Bible and the Qur’an, Eastern and Western traditions, ancient and modern artifacts, mystical and scientific attitudes, meet on equal footing, where a tape recorder perched on a minaret broadcasts the…
