Annal:2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
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Results of the National Book Critics Circle Award in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2006 NBCC–Poetry winner
- Score: 10.56
Tom Thomson In Purgatory is a collection of poetry from the creator of “Tom Thomson”, a literary character whom former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins claims to be “a verbal phantom, the result of the poet’s word-spinning, but at the same time we lean forward to believe in him—our hero for the moment, a man of the hour…”
My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again
- 2006 NBCC–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.56
My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again celebrates the contradictions and quandaries of contemporary American life. These subversive, frequently self-mocking narrative poems are by turns funny and serious, book-smart and street-smart, lyrical and colloquial. Set in Philadelphia, Paris and New Jersey, the poems are at ease with sex happiness and sex trouble, girl-talk and grownup married life, genre parody and antiwar politics, family warfare and family love. Unsentimental but full of emotion, Daisy Fried’s new collection, a finalist for the 2005 James Laughlin Prize, is unforgettable.
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
- 2006 NBCC–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.56
Until the late 1970s, W. D. Snodgrass was known primarily as a confessional poet and a key player in the emergence of that mode of poetry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Snodgrass makes poetry out of the daily neuroses and everyday failures of a man-a husband, father, and teacher. This domestic suffering occurs against a backdrop of more universal suffering which Snodgrass believes is inherent in the human experience. Not for Specialists includes 35 new poems complemented by the superb work he wrote in the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Heart’s Needle, along with poetry from seven other distinguished collections.
- 2006 LATimes–Poetry winner
- 2007 Griffin International shortlist
- 2006 NBCC–Poetry finalist
- Score: 22.56
From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. The poems in Ooga-Booga are about a youthful slave owner and his aging slave, and both are the same man. This is the tenderest, most savage collection yet from “the most frightening American poet ever” (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).
Poems: (1945-1971)
- 2006 NBCC–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.56
Poems (1945-1971) contains selections from the first seven volumes of Miltos Sachtouris' work. The collection traces the poetic development of a writer deeply affected by the turmoil of his times, from his emergence on the Greek literary world as a young man of 25, with a series of poems written during the Axis occupation of Greece, to a volume published thirty years later during the military junta of 1967â74. This bilingual edition of Poems (1945-1971) is almost a historical document, chronicling one poet’s response to three decades of intense social and political upheaval in a nation experiencing the successive horrors of occupation, civil war, and military dictatorship.
