Poetry. Finalist for the 2005 National Book Award, THE MOMENT'S EQUATION also won the 2003 Richard Snyder Publication Prize. This is Vern Rutsala's eleventh collection of poetry. "There is one way in particular in which Vern Rutsala could and in my view should be an example to us all, an example of how to put to maximum use the simplest things in our lives"-Donald Justice.