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1980
Nice poem about Wallace Stevens in this book. Justice is an excellent poet with his heart in the right place. Out here in the real world,.
1981
PS 3569 C65
One poem is called "Wystan Auden" for you-know-who. Published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, a distinguished publisher of poetry in NYC, 212.741.6900. Typical of the 1980s formulaic and uninteresting graphic design.
1982
PS 3566 L27
Edited by her husband the poet Ted Hughes. Published 15 years after her death. These poems grab you by the bridge of the nose and squeeze tight. An unimpeachable genius.
1983
PS 3521 I582
Includes the much-anthologized "The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students." This guy is hilarious. There are a lot of great poems in this book, but has the same boring 80s graphic design.
1984
PS 3565 L5 A66
Dedicated "In Memory of James Wright." Always good to mention a previous winner. First Edition. Another book which thanks the Guggenheim for money, which seems to be picking up the slack for Auden. Shows that if you can't know the right people, at least you can know the right foundation. Erie Street Press, an important Chicago publisher of performance poetry, published Hardware and Variety by Ron Gillette, one of the first proponents of Slam Poetry.
1985
Yin: New Poems
PS 3521 I9 756 1984
Carolyn Kizer
Prose and verse poems. Didn't move me that much. The 80s look a lot like the 20s in that there was a lot of great poetry written with a lot of crap grabbing all the glory.
1986
The Flying Change
PS 3570 A93 F59 1985
Henry Taylor
Interesting book with poems very much at home in The New Yorker. No thanks.
1987
Thomas and Beulah
PS 3554 )884 T4
Rita Dove
Could not find this book in the library. George Bush declares his candidacy for President and remains unassassinated.
1988
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
PS 3525 E588 P37
William Meredith
Hello my name is Wilham Meredith I may not be Robert Frost but at least I'm alive. Pretty good poems but I'd love to see this guy on the stage @ Estelle's. They'll eat him alive.
1989
New and Collected Poems
PS 3545 I32165 N49
Richard Wilbur
A ribbon into the past. Four-line rhyming stanzas. "On Freedom's Ground" was written to be accompanied by music composed by William Schuman and was performed @ Lincoln Center in 1986 in celebration of the centennial of the Statue of Liberty.