National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Changing Light at SandoverJames MerrillA series of mystical poems explores the author's experiences communicating through a Ouija board with a spirit named Ephraim who guides the poet through a series of conversations with W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, and others....Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistErosionJorie GrahamAmazonPicture BrideCathy SongAmazonTarC.K. WilliamsAmazonThe KingfisherAmy ClampittAmazon

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Dead and the LivingSharon OldsThe 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. From the Trade Paperback edition....Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA WaveJohn AshberyAmazonGround Work: Before the WarRobert DuncanAmazonOvernight in the Guest House of the MysticDick AllenAmazonThe Other Side of the RiverCharles WrightAmazon

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Triumph of AchillesLouise Glück...Amazon1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistLate SettingsJames MerrillAmazonThe Lamplit AnswerGjertude SchnackenbergAmazonThe PastGalway KinnellAmazonWhat the Light Was LikeAmy ClampittAmazon

1975 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSelf-portrait in a Convex MirrorJohn AshberyA Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...Amazon

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerFlesh and BloodC.K. WilliamsFlesh & Blood, the fifth collection by C. K. Williams, was awarded the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Reviewing it in The New York Times Book Review, Edward Hirsch noted that the book's compression and exactitude gave it "the feeling o...Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistApril GalleonsJohn AshberyAmazonHappy HourAlan ShapiroAmazonIn Other WordsMay SwensonAmazonThe Sunset MakerDonald JusticeAmazon

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe One DayDonald Hall...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistHarp LakeJohn HollanderAmazonNew and Collected PoemsRichard WilburAmazonOne Thousand Avant-Garde PlaysKenneth KochAmazonSelected Poems, 1938-1988Thomas McGrathAmazon

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerTransparent GesturesRodney JonesOn receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his third book, Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones was hailed as "a brand-new world-class poet." This collection of poems, rich in irony, sensuousness, and pleasure, reveals his robust, humoro...Amazon1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistEarthquake WeatherAugust KleinzahlerAmazonHuman WishesRobert HassAmazonPyramid of BoneThylias MossAmazonWater WalkerNancy WillardAmazon

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerBitter AngelAmy GerstlerA reissuing of Bitter Angel, poems by Amy Gerstler....Amazon1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistIn the Western NightFrank BidartAmazonNew Poems, 1980-88John HainesAmazonThe Book of Gods and DevilsCharles SimicAmazonThe Transparent ManAnthony HechtAmazon

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerHeaven and Earth: A CosmologyAlbert GoldbarthFocusing with equal energy at the imposing sky and at our own home planet, Albert Goldbarth moves from hosannah-choiring angels to a single peach pit glistening on the tongue of Madame Renoir, from the sweep of the earth's ecocycles to the particles of qua...Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAn Atlas of the Difficult WorldAdrienne RichAmazonJaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected PoemsDiane AckermanAmazonThe Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected (1979-1991)Allen GrossmanAmazonWhat Work IsPhilip LevineAmazon

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerCollected Shorter Poems 1946-1991Hayden CarruthPoems written over the past thirty-three years deal with art, nature, memories, snow, myths, war, love, knowledge, and rural life...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Dream of MindC.K. WilliamsAmazonGilgameshDavid FerryAmazonLooking for LuckMaxine KuminAmazonThe FatherSharon OldsAmazon