2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

Carolina Ghost Woods

Judy Jordan

Wintry in tone, titles and topics–“Ice molds my life” as one poem puts it–Jordan’s debut scours the wooded terrain for metaphors of death (“It’s dirt and dust after all”) and trolls her family history for murders, suicides, threats and promises of the en…

Men in the Off Hours

Anne Carson

Talking Dirty to the Gods

Yusef Komunyakaa

The Ledge

Michael Collier

Ultima Thule

Davis McCombs