Woman (Coffee House Press), "American Book Award" Alfred Corn, Present (Washington: Counterpoint Press) Tess Gallagher, At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Amy Clampitt, The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Knopf), published posthumously, a New York Times "notable book of the year" Jorie Graham, The Errancy: Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Beth Gylys, Balloon Heart (Wind Publications), Winner of the Quentin R. Howard Award. Robert Fagles (translator), The Odyssey by Homer (Viking), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Susan Hahn, Confession (University of Chicago Press) Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls Paul Hoover, Viridian (University of Georgia Press) Fanny Howe, One Crossed Out Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (Norton), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year" John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (Columbia University Press) Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (W.W. Norton) Philip Levine, Unselected Poems (Greenhouse Review Press) Sarah Lindsay, Primate Behavior (Grove Press), National Book Award finalist William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems W. S. Merwin, Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (which wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize) Mary Oliver, West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems Carl Rakosi, The Earth Suite 1997 Kenneth Rexroth, Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems Rosmarie Waldrop, Another Language: Selected Poems (Talisman House) C. K. Williams, The Vigil (Farrar Straus), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award David Wojahn, The Falling Hour (University of Pittsburgh Press) Charles Wright, BlackZodiac (Farrar Straus) Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren: A Biography. (Random House), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, editors, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, 1997 American Book Award