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National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Together, over 700 book reviewers choose the National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are offered in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism. Also awarded each year are the Ivan Sandrof Award for Contribution to American Arts and Letters and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, which is given by the NBCC to one of its members.

Awards for 2011

1. National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

   Publisher Comments: "Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down." The New York Times Book Review "Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of... (read more)

Past Winners

1. 2010

   
   One with Others: [A Little Book of... C. D. Wright Used Trade Paper $10.00
   

2. 2009

   
   Versed (Wesleyan Poetry) Rae Armantrout Used Trade Paper $9.00
   

3. 2008

   
   Half of the World in Light: New and... Juan Felipe Herrera New Trade Paper $24.95
   

4. 2007

   
   Elegy: Poems Mary Jo Bang

   

   New Hardcover $18.75
   

5. 2005

   
   Refusing Heaven Jack Gilbert New Hardcover $23.95
   

6. 2004

   
   The School Among the Ruins: Poems... Adrienne Rich Used Trade Paper $8.00
   

7. 2003

   
   Columbarium (Phoenix Poets) Susan Stewart Used Hardcover $15.50
   

8. 2002

   
   Early Occult Memory Systems of the... B H Fairchild Used Trade Paper $8.50
   

9. 2001

   
   Saving Lives: Poems Albert Goldbarth New Trade Paper $25.95
   

10. 2000

    
    Carolina Ghost Woods Judy Jordan Used Trade Paper $6.50
    

11. 1999

    
    Ordinary Words Ruth Stone New Trade Paper $16.25
    

12. 1996

    
    Sun Under Wood Robert Hass

    

    Used Trade Paper $8.95
    

13. 1995

    
    Time & Money William Matthews Used Trade Paper $5.95
    

14. 1994

    
    Rider Mark Rudman Used Trade Paper $3.50
    

15. 1993

    
    My Alexandria Mark Doty Used Trade Paper $6.95
    

16. 1992

    
    Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 Hayden Carruth New Trade Paper $27.25
    

17. 1991

    
    Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology... Albert Goldbarth New Trade Paper $24.95
    

18. 1990

    
    Bitter Angel (Carnegie Mellon... Amy Gerstler New Trade Paper $16.95
    

19. 1989

    
    Transparent Gestures Rodney Jones Used Trade Paper $3.95
    

20. 1988

    
    The One Day Donald Hall Used Trade Paper $5.95
    

21. 1987

    
    Flesh and Blood (87 Edition) C. K. Williams Used Trade Paper $8.00
    

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