Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

1976 Pulitzer Prize - 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

1975 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerTurtle IslandGary SnyderThese Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of...Amazon

1974 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe DolphinRobert LowellI have sat and listened to too many words of the collaborating muse, and plotted perhaps too freely with my life, not avoiding injury to others, not avoiding injury to myself— to ask compassion . . . this book, half fiction, an eelnet made by man for the e...Amazon

1973 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerUp CountryMaxine KuminThe special world of rural New England is the focus of Maxine Kumin's new volume of poems. A delightful gift for all who love this region, it is also a fine collection of new and selected pastoral poems by a poet whose work has been widely published and pr...Amazon

1972 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerCollected PoemsJames WrightA collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems....Amazon

2008 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerFailurePhilip SchultzFailure is a superb collection, “full of slashing language, good rhythms [and] surprises” (Norman Mailer). “Philip Schultz’s poems have long since earned their own place in American poetry....AmazonTime and MaterialsRobert HassThe poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically var...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistMessenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006Ellen Bryant VoigtAmazon

2019 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerBe WithForrest GanderForrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the...Amazon2019 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistfeeldJos CharlesAmazonLikeA.E. StallingsAmazon

2018 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerHalf-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016Frank BidartThe collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voic...Amazon2018 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistIncendiary Art,Patricia SmithAmazonsemiautomatic,Evie ShockleyAmazon

2017 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerOlioTyehimba JessWith ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America s blues, worksongs and church hymns."...Amazon2017 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistCollected Poems: 1950-2012Adrienne RichAmazonXXCampbell McGrathAmazon

2016 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerOzone JournalPeter Balakian"A sequel of sorts to "Ziggurat," published in the Phoenix Poets series in 2010, the title poem from "Ozone Journal" recounts the memory of the speaker's excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a TV journalist crew in 20...Amazon2016 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistAlive: New and Selected PoemsElizabeth WillisAmazonFour-Legged GirlDiane SeussAmazon