Reviews of Chronic

“The best poet of his generation—and arguably the most important poet under 50.”

—TIMEOUT NEW YORK

“This fourth collection from Powell is simultaneously an accessible heartbreaker, a rare gem for connoisseurs, a genre-altering breakthrough and a long anticipated follow-up.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review

“A collection of piquant poetry about heartbreak that mixes mordant wit and sophisticated sincerity in equal measure.”

—BOOKFORUM

“D. A. Powell's combination of wit and precision make him seem like a post-modern Cavalier poet. The lyric fluency, jittery syntactical invention, and (above all) pathos of his poems are a joy to read, and he has developed a style that is unmistakably his. He is a capacious and exhilarating writer, and CHRONIC is his finest collection yet.”

—DAVID WOJAHN

“Whenever I change the channel to D. A. Powell’s work, there beneath the screen’s headlines runs the simultaneous quicksilver crawl of news from elsewhere: from underneath, behind the scenes, the half-secret places where love is brokered and power is spent. It all races to the heart, and keeps his poems there. Chronic gives us the time of our lives in ways both ardent and exhilarating.”

—J. D. MCCLATCHY

“Chronic is one of those rare collections that moves beautifully between poetry’s inner / outer stereopticon.”

—LOS ANGELES TIMES

“Richly romantic yet never sentimental, Powell’s work in Chronic is often addressed to 'you': a friend, a lover, and you, the reader. It’s a lovely, intimate style.”

—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“The chronic illnesses and errors afflicting our planet: can they be healed by a poet? Can they be healed by a poet who suffers from an illness equivalent to the global one? ‘Drug failure or organ failure, cataclysmic climate change….’ This book shows the affliction speaking for itself and this planet doing its best to survive where ‘the yellow violets bloom.’ Other poets ghost the pages (Orpheus, Baudelaire, Donne) with their ancient belief that poetry is a physician. This book makes you believe them.”

—FANNY HOWE

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