National Book Award / Poetry
Frank Bidart , 2017 award winner
The National Book Award for Poetry (National Book Award for Poetry) is awarded for the best book of poetry since the 1950s.
Were awarded with two wins most AR Ammons (1973, 1993), Alan Dugan (1962, 2001), Philip Levine (1980, 1991), James Merrill (1967, 1979), Theodore Roethke (1959, 1965) and Wallace Stevens ( 1951, 1955).
No prize was awarded between 1984 and 1990.
Award winners
| year | Award winners | title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | William Carlos Williams | The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia | not known |
| 1951 | Wallace Stevens | The Auroras of Autumn | not known |
| 1952 | Marianne Moore | Collected poems | not known |
| 1953 | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems, 1917-1952 | not known |
| 1954 | Conrad Aiken | Collected poems | not known |
| 1955 | Wallace Stevens | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens | The poems of our climate |
| 1956 | WH Auden | The Shield of Achilles | not known |
| 1957 | Richard Wilbur | Things of the World | not known |
| 1958 | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 | not known |
| 1959 | Theodore Roethke | Words for the wind | not known |
| 1960 | Robert Lowell | Life Studies | not known |
| 1961 | Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo | not known |
| 1962 | Alan Dugan | Poems | not known |
| 1963 | William Stafford | Traveling through the dark | not known |
| 1964 | John Crowe Ransomware | Traveling through the dark | not known |
| 1965 | Theodore Roethke | The Far Field | not known |
| 1966 | James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice: Poems | not known |
| 1967 | James Merrill | Nights and Days | not known |
| 1968 | Robert Bly | The Light Around the Body | not known |
| 1969 | John Berryman | His Toy, His Dream, His Rest | not known |
| 1970 | Elizabeth Bishop | The Complete Poems | not known |
| 1971 | Mona Van Duyn | To see, to take | not known |
| 1972 | Howard Moss | Selected Poems | not known |
| Frank O'Hara | The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara | not known | |
| 1973 | AR Ammons | Collected Poems, 1951-1971 | not known |
| 1974 | Allen Ginsberg | The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 | The Fall of America: Poems 1965–1971 |
| Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 | not known | |
| 1975 | Marilyn Hacker | Presentation piece | not known |
| 1976 | John Ashbery | Self-portrait in a convex mirror | Self-portrait in the convex mirror |
| 1977 | Richard Eberhart | Collected Poems, 1930-1976 | not known |
| 1978 | Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov | not known |
| 1979 | James Merrill | Mirabell: Book of Numbers | not known |
| 1980 | Philip Levine | Ashes | not known |
| 1981 | Lisel Mueller | The need to hold still | Voices from the forest |
| 1982 | William Bronk | Life Supports: New and Collected Poems | not known |
| 1983 | Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems | not known |
| Charles Wright | Country Music: Selected Early Poems | not known | |
| 1984- 1990 |
Prize not awarded | ||
| 1991 | Philip Levine | What Work Is | not known |
| 1992 | Mary Oliver | New & Selected Poems | not known |
| 1993 | AR Ammons | Garbage | not known |
| 1994 | James Tate | A Worshipful Company of Fletchers | not known |
| 1995 | Stanley Kunitz | Passing Through: The Later Poems | not known |
| 1996 | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Poems 1991-1995 | not known |
| 1997 | William Meredith | Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems | not known |
| 1998 | Gerald Stern | This Time: New and Selected Poems | not known |
| 1999 | Ai | Vice: New & Selected Poems | not known |
| 2000 | Lucille Clifton | Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 | not known |
| 2001 | Alan Dugan | Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry | not known |
| 2002 | Ruth Stone | In the Next Galaxy | not known |
| 2003 | CK Williams | The Singing | not known |
| 2004 | Jean Valentine | Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 | not known |
| 2005 | WS Merwin | Migration: New and Selected Poems | not known |
| 2006 | Nathaniel Mackey | Splay Anthem | not known |
| 2007 | Robert Hass | Time and Materials | not known |
| 2008 | Mark Doty | Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems | not known |
| 2009 | Keith Waldrop | Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy | not known |
| 2010 | Terrance Hayes | Lighthead | not known |
| 2011 | Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split | not known |
| 2012 | David Ferry | Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations | not known |
| 2013 | Mary Szybist | Incarnadine | not known |
| 2014 | Louise lucky | Faithful and Virtuous Night | not known |
| 2015 | Robin Coste Lewis | Voyage of the Sable Venus | not known |
| 2016 | Daniel Borzutzky | The Performance of Becoming Human | not known |
| 2017 | Frank Bidart | Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 | not known |
| 2018 | Justin Phillip Reed | Indecency | not known |
Web links
- National Book Award Winners: 1950–2015 (English)