Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerPractical WaterBrenda HillmanWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (2009) Runner-up for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry (2009) Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman’s previous two books, Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the Epic, both an elemental meditati...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Shortlist]Open Interval[Lyrae Van Clief-StefanonAmazonApocalyptic Swing: PoemsGabrielle CalvocoressiAmazonDearest CreatureAmy GerstlerAmazonWhat the Right Hand KnowsTom HealyAmazon

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Throne of LabdacusGjertrud SchnackenbergA new collection of poems by the author of A Guilded Lapse of Time revisits the story of Oedipus and Apollo to probe themes of fate and necessity. Reprint....Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistMen in the Off HoursAnne CarsonAmazonPastoralCarl PhillipsAmazonSome Ether: PoemsNick FlynnAmazonThe LedgeMichael CollierAmazon

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 TangosAnne CarsonSince Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red a...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistFelt: PoemsAlice FultonAmazonLandscape with Chainsaw: PoemsJames LasdunAmazonSong of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1981-2001Pattiann RogersAmazonThe Seven AgesLouise GlückAmazon

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Watercourse: PoemsCynthia ZarinA powerful anthology of poetry by the critically acclaimed author of Fire Lyric and Swordfish Tooth takes a close-up look at the subject of divorce, the effects of a failed marriage, and the destruction and reforming a family that follows. Reprint....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistHazmatJ.D. McClatchyAmazonHip LogicTerrance HayesAmazonNorth Point North: New and Selected PoemsJohn KoetheAmazonSleeping With the DictionaryHarryette MullenAmazon

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerCollected Later PoemsAnthony HechtAnthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness a...Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDeparture: PoemsRosanna WarrenAmazonJelly Roll: A BluesKevin YoungAmazonMiddle Earth: PoemsHenri ColeAmazonThe Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New PoemsCharles SimicAmazon

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerInner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003Richard HowardRichard Howard is one of America's most original and innovative poets, and this volume is the first major selection of his work to be published in the UK. It is resplendant with fin de siecle Parisian opulence, brought magnificently to life with impressive...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistKeeping My NameCatherine TufarielloAmazonThe Clerk's Tale: PoemsSpencer ReeceAmazonThe OptimistJoshua MehiganAmazonThe OrchardBrigit Pegeen KellyAmazon

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerRefusing Heaven: PoemsJack GilbertMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the...Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistLuck Is Luck: PoemsLucia PerilloAmazonPennyweight Windows: New & Selected PoemsDonald RevellAmazonThe Cachoeira Tales and Other PoemsMarilyn NelsonAmazonZeppo's First Wife: New and Selected PoemsGail MazurAmazon

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerOoga-BoogaFrederick SeidelFrom the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. Here I am, not a practical man, But clear-eyed in my contact lenses, Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others, Seeking sexual pleasure above all else, De...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistBlack BoxErin BelieuAmazonBurning Wyclif: PoemsThom SatterleeAmazonDarling Vulgarity: PoemsMichael WatersAmazonLogorrhea: PoemsAdrian C. LouisAmazon

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerOld Heart: PoemsStanley PlumlyStanley Plumly's masterful eighth collection--wherein he confronts and celebrates mortality--was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. In this collection, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality--in the detailed natural world, in the ...Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistLittle BoatJean ValentineAmazonMars Being RedMarvin BellAmazonRipple Effect: New and Selected PoemsElaine EquiAmazonThe Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007Albert GoldbarthAmazon

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerWatching the Spring Festival: PoemsFrank BidartA first collection of lyrics by the Bollingen Prize-winning author of Star Dust evaluates the role of imminent mortality in forcing the self to question the relation between actual life and the promise of transformation, in a volume that explores such subj...Amazon2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistOursCole SwensenAmazonRare High Meadow of Which I Might DreamConnie VoisineAmazonSea Change: PoemsJorie GrahamAmazonThe Kingdom of Ordinary Time: PoemsMarie HoweAmazon