Swenson's In Other Words (Knopf) celebrates the visual world in Termed him, "the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens." May Stories and a memoir that prove him to be, as Anthony Hecht has properly In The Sunset Maker (Atheneum), Donald Justice brings together poems, "Remains" and in the recent poems of splendid comic invention. Shows his great strength and versatility, especially in the sequence Snodgrass's Selected Poems 1957-1987 (Soho) Throughout his long career has been a poet "who made poetry wholeĪgain." W.D. ![]() The last poem of this severely limited selection of his work, Shapiro The poems in Karl Shapiro's New and Selected Poemsġ940-1986 (University of Chicago Press) have won many prizes and areĬertainly deserving of another. We narrowed our difficult selection to a final short list of sixīooks. Selected Poems (Expanded Edition) and Sumerian Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 19691980 by LucilleĬlifton (BOA Editions) is especially no, 'able for its poignantīlack family history. Poems 1942-1987 by Charles Edward Eaton (Comwall Books) both contain Poems: New and Selectedīy Frederick Morgan (University of Illinois Press) and New and Selected The most striking of which is the title poem. Meredith's seven previous collections, along with eleven new poems, ![]() Large." The much-praised Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poemsīy William Meredith (Knopf) contains a wide selection from Immense resources yet, at the same time, transparent to the world at Ideal"a poetry, a language, absorbed in and exploiting its own Weiss 1950-1986 (Macmillan) presents what Weiss calls his From Princeton OneĪutumn Afternoon: Collected Poems of Theodore It is scrupulously edited, splendidly produced,Īnd is the life work of one of the country's finest poets.Īmong the many books we examined were a number of importantĬollected works, any one of which merited an award. In Columbia, South Carolina, (appearing apparently without an aftsĬouncil subvention). Josephine Jacobsen, comes from The Bench Press, a small publishing house Our choice for the prize, The Sister: New and Selected Poems by Volumes of truly superior quality to make our final selection far from Used to say, "eminently forgettable." Still, there were enough Superficially dazzling productions are, as the late J.V. Ragged, sloppy work to be rushed into print. Self-critical to any extent, and their editors frequently allow uneven, Although one can only welcome such wideĪttention to poetry, one must at the same time regret that these booksĪre for the most part so poorly edited. Presses are handsomely, even lavishly, produced, with beautiful durableīindings and jackets studded with encomiums from poets being publishedīy other small presses. As a result of these subven-tions, books by small Or in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts or some Book afterīook bears the notice that its publication has been supported in whole Responsible for the publication of a good portion of them. Phillips and I concluded that more books of poems than ever beforeĪre being published in this country and that the government is ![]() The Lenore Marshall Prize, Katha Pollitt, Robert Reviewing over several months the hundreds of books submitted for ![]() The Lenore Marshall Prize." Retrieved from MLA style: "The Lenore Marshall Prize." The Free Library.
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