Winner
Selected Poems, by Donald Justice
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Goshawk, Antelope, by David Smith
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Selected Poems, by Richard Hugo
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The Morning of the Poem, by James Schuyler
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Selected Poems, by Mark Strand
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The Right Madness on Sky, by Richard Hugo
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The Collected Poems, by Sylvia Plath
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Dream Flights, by Dave Smith
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The Southern Cross, by Charles Wright
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Selected Poems, by Galway Kinnell
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Country Music, Selected Early Poems, by Charles Wright
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Monolithos, Poems, 1962 and 1982, by Jack Gilbert
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American Primitive, by Mary Oliver
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Collected Poems, 1930-1982, by Josephine Miles
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Weather-Fear : New and Selected Poems, by John Engels
Winner
Yin, by Carolyn Kizer
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Ground Work, by Robert Duncan
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The Other Side of the River, by Charles Wright
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The Flying Change, by Henry Taylor
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The Flying Change : poems by Henry TaylorCall Number: 811.54 T242f (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780807112632
Publication Date: 1985-12-01
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Saints and Strangers, by Andrew Hudgins
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Selected Poems, 1963-1983, by Charles Simic
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Thomas and Beulah, by Rita Dove
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Thomas and Beulah : poems by Rita DoveCall Number: 811.54 D743t (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780887480218
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
American poetry -- 20th century.
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The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth, by Hayden Carruth
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Unending Blues, by Charles Simic
Winner
Partial Accounts : New and Selected Poems, by William Meredith
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Flesh and Blood, by C. K. Williams
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Good Woman : Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next : New Poems, by Lucille Clifton
Winner
New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur
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New and Collected Poems by Richard WilburCall Number: 811.54 W666n (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780151652068
Publication Date: 1988-04-01
American poetry -- 20th century.
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The One Day, by Donald Hall
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The River of Heaven, by Garrett Hongo
The Flying Change : poems by 
Thomas and Beulah : poems by 
New and Collected Poems by