1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner

Flesh and Blood
C.K. Williams
Flesh & Blood, the fifth collection by C. K. Williams, was awarded the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Reviewing it in The New York Times Book Review, Edward Hirsch noted that the book’s compression and exactitude gave it “the feeling o…
1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Shortlist

April Galleons
John Ashbery

Happy Hour
Alan Shapiro

In Other Words
May Swenson
