1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner

Mixed Company
Alan Shapiro
Respected poet, teacher, and critic Alan Shapiro continues his much-acclaimed explorations of childhood, family, and marriage in Mixed Company. Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, and with equal attention to histor…
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Shortlist

Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994
Jorie Graham

Meadowlands
Louise Glück

Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
Stanley Kunitz

The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
Robert Pinsky

The Terrible Stories: Poems
Lucille Clifton

The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996
James McMichael

Things That Happen Once: New Poems
Rodney Jones
