1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – 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 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Shortlist

Desire
Frank Bidart

Does Your House Have Lions?
Sonya Sanchez

Loose Sugar
Brenda Hillman
