National Book Award for Poetry

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National Book Award for Poetry

HONOR

1950 William Carlos Williams Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems

1951 Wallace Stevens The Auroras of Autumn

1952 Marianne Moore Collected Poems

1953 Archibald Macleish Collected Poems, 1917-1952

1954 Conrad Aiken Collected Poems

1955 Wallace Stevens The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

1956 W. H. Auden The Shield of Achilles

1957 Richard Wilbur Things of This World

1958 Robert Penn Warren Promises: Poems, 1954-1956

1959 Theodore Roethke Words for the Wind

1960 Robert Lowell Life Studies

1961 Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo

1962 Alan Dugan Poems

1963 William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark

1964 John Crowe Ransom Selected Poems

1965 Theodore Roethke The Far Field

1966 James Dickey Buckdancer's Choice: Poems

1967 James Merrill Nights and Days

1968 Robert Bly The Light Around the Body

1969 John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest

1970 Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems

1971 Mona Van Duyn To See, To Take

1972 Howard Moss Selected Poems

1972 Frank O'Hara The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara

1973 A. R. Ammons Collected Poems, 1951-1971

1974 Allen Ginsberg The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971

1974 Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972

1975 Marilyn Hacker Presentation Piece

1976 John Ashbery Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror

1977 Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930-1976

1978 Howard Nemerov The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

1979 James Merrill Mirabell: Book of Numbers

1980 Philip Levine Ashes

1981 Lisel Mueller The Need to Hold Still

1982 William Bronk Life Supports: New and Collected Poems

1983 Galway Kinnell Selected Poems

1983 Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems

1991 Philip Levine What Work Is

1992 Mary Oliver New & Selected Poems

1993 A. R. Ammons Garbage

1994 James Tate A Worshipful Company of Fletchers

1995 Stanley Kunitz Passing Through: The Later Poems

1996 Hayden Carruth Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey

1997 William Meredith Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems

1998 Gerald Stern This Time: New and Selected Poems

1999 Ai Vice: New & Selected Poems

2000 Lucille Clifton Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

2001 Alan Dugan Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000

2002 Ruth Stone In the Next Galaxy

2003 C. K. Williams The Singing

2004 Jean Valentine Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

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