Poetry
For a list of winners and finalists, see National Book Award for Poetry.1950 | William Carlos Williams | Paterson: Book Three and Selected Poems |
1951 | Wallace Stevens | The Auroras of Autumn |
1952 | Marianne Moore | Collected Poems |
1953 | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems, 1917-1952 |
1954 | Conrad Aiken | Collected Poems |
1955 | Wallace Stevens | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens |
1956 | W. H. Auden | The Shield of Achilles |
1957 | Richard Wilbur | Things of This World |
1958 | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 |
1959 | Theodore Roethke | Words for the Wind |
1960 | Robert Lowell | Life Studies |
1961 | Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
1962 | Alan Dugan | Poems |
1963 | William Stafford | Traveling Through the Dark |
1964 | John Crowe Ransom | Selected Poems |
1965 | Theodore Roethke | The Far Field |
1966 | James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice |
1967 | James Merrill | Nights and Days |
1968 | Robert Bly | The Light Around the Body |
1969 | John Berryman | His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
1970 | Elizabeth Bishop | The Complete Poems |
1971 | Mona Van Duyn | To See, To Take |
1972 | Frank O'Hara | The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara |
Howard Moss | Selected Poems | |
1973 | A. R. Ammons | Collected Poems, 1951-1971 |
1974 | Allen Ginsberg | The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 |
Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 | |
1975 | Marilyn Hacker | Presentation Piece |
1976 | John Ashbery | Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror |
1977 | Richard Eberhart | Collected Poems, 1930-1976 |
1978 | Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov |
1979 | James Merrill | Mirabell: Book of Numbers |
1980 | Philip Levine | Ashes: Poems New and Old |
1981 | Lisel Mueller | The Need to Hold Still |
1982 | William Bronk | Life Supports: New and Collected Poems |
1983 | Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems |
Charles Wright | Country Music: Selected Early Poems | |
1991 | Philip Levine | What Work Is |
1992 | Mary Oliver | New and Selected Poems |
1993 | A. R. Ammons | Garbage |
1994 | James Tate | A Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
1995 | Stanley Kunitz | Passing Through: The Later Poems |
1996 | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey |
1997 | William Meredith | Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems |
1998 | Gerald Stern | This Time: New and Selected Poems |
1999 | Ai | Vice: New and Selected Poems |
2000 | Lucille Clifton | Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 |
2001 | Alan Dugan | Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry |
2002 | Ruth Stone | In the Next Galaxy |
2003 | C. K. Williams | The Singing |
2004 | Jean Valentine | Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 |
2005 | W. S. Merwin | Migration: New and Selected Poems |
2006 | Nathaniel Mackey | Splay Anthem |
2007 | Robert Hass | Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 |
2008 | Mark Doty | Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems |
2009 | Keith Waldrop | Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy |
2010 | Terrance Hayes | Lighthead |
2011 | Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split |
2012 | David Ferry | Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations |
Read more about this topic: List Of Winners Of The National Book Award, Current Award Categories
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quite well developed civilizations can produce good prose. So dont think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, youll see what I mean.”
—Northrop Frye (19121991)
“Proseit might be speculatedis discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of communication; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spiders delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
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