Annal:2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2007. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Native Guard: Poems
- 2007 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- Score: 10.57
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South—where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey’s resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history.
Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004
- 2007 Lenore Marshall shortlist
- 2007 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- Score: 12.57
Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of work from an important American poet, drawing upon each of David Wojahn’s six previous collections and a substantial gathering of new work. Moving fluently from personal history to public history, and from high culture to popular culture, Wojahn’s searching and restless poetry has been considerably acclaimed, both for the candor of its testimony and the authority of its formal invention. He is above all an elegiac poet, tender and ferocious by turns, whether mourning the loss of family and loved ones or the hopes and aspirations of the baby-boomer era. Interrogation Palace confirms David Wojahn’s status as one of the most inventive, passionate, and ambitious figures of his generation.
The Republic of Poetry: Poems
- 2007 Pulitzer–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.57
In his eighth collection of poems, Martin Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Here poets return from the dead, visit in dreams, even rent a helicopter to drop poems on bookmarks.
