1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner

Black Zodiac
Charles Wright
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace…
1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Shortlist

An Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Carol Muske-Dukes

Natal Command
Peter Sacks

Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997
James Galvin
