1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner

Geography III
Elizabeth Bishop
Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist’s office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one’s lover in the masterfully restrained “One Art,” Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small em…
1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Shortlist

Searching for the Ox
Louis Simpson

The Gates
Muriel Rukeyser

The Mind-Reader
Richard Wilbur
