The last book published before the poet's death, Day by Day was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award prize for poetry in 1977 and cements Lowell's reputation as one of the great poetic voices of the century.

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn her seventh volume Marilyn Hacker confronts life and death at the end of our genocidal century, making another extraordinary contribution to the feminist and lesbian canon.

A nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, this volume of essays and reviews examines how poets connect with the outer world. Pinsky admires William Carlos Williams who covered the daily life of working-class America even as he experimented with new ideas and techniques and criticized American culture. He discusses the social presence in Marianne Moore's poems, which make them a profound moral force, and Philip Larkin, who too often affects the persona of a cheerfully philistine reactionary. Other poets covered include Philip Frenean, George Oppen, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, and Edward Arlington Robinson. ISBN 0-88001-216-1: $19.95.