The Displaced of Capital by Anne Winters (University of Chicago
Press, $14, 0226902358) has won the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
from the Academy of American Poets and the Nation magazine. The $25,000 award goes to the best book of poetry published in the U.S. during the previous year.
In the book, the Academy said, Winters explores "the link between the allure of New York City and the harsh realities of global capitalism--Third World labor, poverty, immigration and the erasure of local culture."
Robert Pinsky, one of the three judges (the others were Louise Glück and Alan Shapiro), wrote that the book is "innovative, even startling, in ways that make its materials not remote but immediate. Vivid and reflective, documentary and visionary, re-imagining the city of New York with the same urgency that ponders the opening words of Genesis, this is a passionate, artful and re-readable book."
Winters will read selections from her book tomorrow, November 3, in New York City at the annual Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets.
In the book, the Academy said, Winters explores "the link between the allure of New York City and the harsh realities of global capitalism--Third World labor, poverty, immigration and the erasure of local culture."
Robert Pinsky, one of the three judges (the others were Louise Glück and Alan Shapiro), wrote that the book is "innovative, even startling, in ways that make its materials not remote but immediate. Vivid and reflective, documentary and visionary, re-imagining the city of New York with the same urgency that ponders the opening words of Genesis, this is a passionate, artful and re-readable book."
Winters will read selections from her book tomorrow, November 3, in New York City at the annual Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets.