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Griffin Poetry Prize ぐりふぃんししょう

Edition 4 (2004)

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Winners

2 people
Anne Simpson あん・しんぷそん Winner

A poetry collection centered on memory, family, and loss. Through repetition and fragmentary motifs, it turns private experience into broader poetic insight.

Memory and loss transformed into poetry through quiet repetition.

104 pages
memorylossfamilyreflection
August Kleinzahler おーがすと・くらいんざーれる Winner

A poetry collection that moves lightly among travel, cities, music, and art. Humor and intellectual association mingle as the poems travel freely between distant scenes and everyday fragments.

Free verse linking distant landscapes and urban fragments.

98 pages
travelcitiesmusichumor