National Book Award, Poetry

Florence Anthony, the poet, is known mainly by her pseudonym Ai. For more poems by her, see the Academy of America Poets

• Grandfather Says
• Motherhood, 1951

and The Poetry Foundation

• Conversation
• Cuba, 1962
• Disregard
• Killing Floor
• Passing Through
• Salomé
• Twenty-year Marriage
• Woman to Man

Ai's poems are in copyright and cannot be reproduced without the permission of her publisher, W. W. Norton.

• Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton, 1973.
• --. Killing Floor. Boston: Houghton, 1979.
• --. Sin. Boston: Houghton, 1986.
• --. Fate. Boston: Houghton, 1991.
• --. Greed. New York: Norton, 1993.
• --. Black Blood. New York: Norton, 1997. [novel]
• --. Vice: New and Selected Poems. New York: Norton, 1999.
• --. Dread. New York: Norton, 2003.