Annal:2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
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Results of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2005 Lenore Marshall winner
- Score: 10.55
The long-awaited follow-up to The Key to the City—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986—Anne Winters’s The Displaced of Capital emanates a quiet and authoritative passion for social justice, embodying the voice of a subtle, sophisticated conscience.
The “displaced” in the book’s title refers to the poor, the homeless, and the disenfranchised who populate New York, the city that serves at once as gritty backdrop, city of dreams, and urban nightmare. Winters also addresses the culturally, ethnically, and emotionally…
Poems: New and Selected
- 2005 Lenore Marshall shortlist
- Score: 6.55
Marianne Boruch, one of the most thoughtful and searching of contemporary poets, here draws from her four previous collections, and adds a group of twenty-five new poems to make a volume that is truly impressive in its range and authority.
Boruch is not flamboyant or flashy, armored in theory or swimming with a school. Her poems build toward blazing insights with the utmost honesty and care. And their quiet authority brings readers back, sometimes breathlessly, to examine their reverberating centers and luminous recognitions.
As Stephen Behrendt has put…
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
- 2005 Lenore Marshall shortlist
- Score: 6.55
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets—117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss.” This rich selection exhibits those qualities in poem after poem, reflecting, moreover, an exciting experimentation with rhythm and language and a movement toward an embrace beyond the personal. Subjects…
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
- 2005 Lenore Marshall shortlist
- Score: 6.55
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century
I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes
me the saddest. The sadness is not really about
George W. or our American optimism; the
sadness lives in the recognition that a life can
not matter.
The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric, the essay, and the visual in this politically and morally fierce…
- 2005 Kingsley Tufts winner
- 2005 Lenore Marshall shortlist
- Score: 16.55
Michael Ryan's New and Selected Poems is the first collection to appear in fifteen years from this acclaimed and masterly poet. Comprising fifty-seven poems from three award-winning volumes and thirty-one brilliant new poems, it displays the wit and passion he has brought to universal themes throughout his career. In both dramatic lyrics and complex narratives, Ryan renders the world with startling clarity, freshness, and intimacy.
Ryan”s poems are filled with the stuff of everyday life: What-a-Burger, Space Invaders, “the hood ornament / on some…
Door in the Mountain: New And Collected Poems, 1965-2003
- 2004 NBA–Poetry winner
- 2005 Lenore Marshall shortlist
- Score: 16.54
Since the 1965 publication of her first book, Dream Barker, selected for the Yale Younger Poets Award, Jean Valentine has published eight collections of poetry to critical acclaim. Spare and intensely-felt, Valentine’s poems present experience as only imperfectly graspable. This volume gathers together all of Valentine’s published poems and includes a new collection, Door in the Mountain.
Valentine’s poetry is as recognizable as the slant truth of a dream. She is a brave, unshirking poet who speaks with fire on the great subjects—love, death, and…
