Complex sentence: His book "Going Fast" was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and his most recent book, "Ooga-Booga", was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for the 2007 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
Split into simpler sentences: His book "Going Fast" was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His most recent book, "Ooga-Booga", was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for the 2007 International Griffin Poetry Prize.