1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

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…

Desire

Frank Bidart

Does Your House Have Lions?

Sonya Sanchez

Loose Sugar

Brenda Hillman

Questions for Ecclesiastes

Mark Jarman