1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner

Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
Albert Goldbarth
Focusing with equal energy at the imposing sky and at our own home planet, Albert Goldbarth moves from hosannah-choiring angels to a single peach pit glistening on the tongue of Madame Renoir, from the sweep of the earth’s ecocycles to the particles of qua…
1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Shortlist

An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich

Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems
Diane Ackerman

The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected (1979-1991)
Allen Grossman
