2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys

D. A. Powell

*Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry* I have this rearrangement to make: symbolic death, my backward glance. The way the past is a kind of future leaning against the sporty hood. —from “Bugcatching at Twilight” In Useless Lands…

Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations

David Ferry

Fragile Acts

Allan Peterson

Olives

A. E. Stallings

On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

Lucia Perillo