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The
National Book Award for Poetry |
The National Book Award for Poetry has
awarded annually (except for a few years in the late 1980s) since 1950 for the
best collection of poetry by a single author who resides in the United States.
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The
National Book Award for Poetry |
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Year |
Author |
Title |
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2006 |
Mackey, Nathaniel |
Splay Anthem |
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2005 |
Merwin, W.S. |
Migration: New and Selected Poems |
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2004 |
Valentine, Jean |
Door in the Mountain |
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2003 |
Williams, C.K. |
The Singing |
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2002 |
Stone, Ruth |
In the Next Galaxy |
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2001 |
Dugan, Allen |
Poems Seven |
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2000 |
Clifton, Lucille |
Blessing the Boats |
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1999 |
Ai |
Vice: New and Selected Poems |
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1998 |
Stern, Gerald |
This Time: New and Selected Poems |
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1997 |
Meredith, William |
Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems |
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1996 |
Carruth, Hayden |
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Poems 1991-1995 |
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1995 |
Kunitz, Stanley |
Passing Through: The Later Poems |
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1994 |
Tate, James |
A Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
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1993 |
Ammons, Archie Randolph |
Garbage |
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1992 |
Oliver, Mary |
New and Selected Poems |
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1991 |
Levine, Philip |
What Work Is? |
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1983 |
Kinnell, Galway |
Selected Poems |
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1983 |
Wright, Charles |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems |
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1982 |
Bronk, William |
Life Supports: New and Collected Poems |
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1981 |
Mueller, Lisel |
The Need to Hold Still |
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1980 |
Levine, Philip |
Ashes |
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1979 |
Merrill, James |
Mirabell: Book of Numbers |
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1978 |
Nemerov, Howard |
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov |
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1977 |
Eberhart, Richard |
Collected Poems, 1930-1976 |
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1976 |
Ashbery, John |
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror |
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1975 |
Hacker, Marilyn |
Presentation Piece |
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1974 |
Ginsberg, Allen |
The Fall of America |
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1974 |
Rich, Adrienne |
Diving Into the Wreck |
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1973 |
Ammons, Archie Randolph |
Collected Poems, 1951-1971 |
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1972 |
Moss, Howard |
Selected Poems |
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1972 |
O'Hara, Frank |
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara |
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1971 |
Van Duyn, Mona |
To See, To Take |
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1970 |
Bishop, Elizabeth |
The Complete Poems |
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1969 |
Berryman, John |
His Toy, His Dream, His Past |
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1968 |
Bly, Robert |
The Light Around the Body |
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1967 |
Merrill, James |
Nights and Days |
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1966 |
Dickey, James |
Buckdancer's Choice: Poems |
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1965 |
Roethke, Theodore |
The Far Field |
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1964 |
Ransome, John Crowe |
Selected Poems |
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1963 |
Stafford, William |
Traveling Through the Dark |
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1962 |
Dugan, Allen |
Poems |
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1961 |
Jarrell, Randall |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
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1960 |
Lowell, Robert |
Life Studies |
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1959 |
Roethke, Theodore |
Words for the Wind |
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1958 |
Warren, Robert Penn |
Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 |
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1957 |
Wilbur, Richard |
Things of the World |
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1956 |
Auden, W.H. |
The Shield of Achilles |
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1955 |
Stevens, Wallace |
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens |
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1954 |
Aiken, Conrad |
Collected Poems |
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1953 |
MacLeish, Archibald |
Collected Poems, 1917-1952 |
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1952 |
Moore, Marianne |
Collected Poems |
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1951 |
Stevens, Wallace |
The Auroras of Autumn |
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1950 |
Williams, William Carlos |
Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems |
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