1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner
What Work Is: Poems
Philip Levine
Winner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and l…
1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Shortlist
Region of Unlikeness
Jorie Graham
Star Ledger
Lynda Hull
Sudden Dreams: New and Selected Poems
George Evans
