The wait for the National Book Critics Circle Awards is over, and YUP is pleased to announce and congratulate Clare Cavanagh for her award in the Criticism category for Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland and the West. Her exploration of poetry and national life in Poland and Russia from 1917 to the present offers a comparative study of the poetry of the Eastern and Western sides of the “iron curtain,” and an examination of these topics in light of Western postmodernist philosophical theories. Check out the full list of award-winners and finalists on “Critical Mass”, the blog of the NBCC, and you can read an excerpt from Cavanagh‘s book on YUP’s website.