Poetry. AIRS & VOICES is the winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry,
selected by Mark Jarman, who calls Bonnell's voice "fresh and original."
Maxine Kumin writes of the book, "Bonnell's voice is low-key but full of
quirky insights that keep these poems fresh and interesting." "This is an
enchanting book," writes Richard Wilbur. These poems invent their own
forms, with two series of voices (of people, animals, things) portraying a
world of peace with varied multicultural and international connections. The
shock of 9/11 opens the final section, which relates private experience to
wider social healing and the ideal of one world. "'The Voices' may be one
of the wisest comments on the catastrophe of 9/11 that an American poet has
made," writes X. J. Kennedy.