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Book Title

Chronic

Subtitle
Poems
Author 1
D. A. Powell
Body
so many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness
that easily fall among the dropseed: a rind, a left-behind
—from “no picnic”

In these brilliant poems from one of contemporary poetry’s most intriguing, singular voices, D. A. Powell strikes out for the farther territories of love and comes back from those fields with loss, with flowers faded, “blossom blast and dieback.” Chronic describes the flutter and cruelty of erotic encounter, temptation, and bitter heartsickness, but with Powell’s deep lyric beauty and his own brand of dark wit.

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List Price
$15.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-55597-606-4
Format
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
Publication Date
Subject
Subject
Pages
Pages
88
Trim Size
Trim Size
7 x 9
Keynote
Now in paperback, the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

About the Author

D. A. Powell
Credit: Bill Valentine
D. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry, including Chronic, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Repast: Tea,Lunch, and Cocktails. Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He lives in San Francisco.

http://dapowell.blogspot.com/
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Praise

  • “Wickedly well-tuned work. . . . Chronic is one of those rare collections that moves beautifully between poetry’s inner / outer stereopticon.”—John Freeman, Los Angeles Times
  • “To read Chronic for the first time is to marvel at the combination of wild emotion and virtuosic technique. . . . To read Powell for the first time (no matter where you start) is to find a great deal of joy.”—Stephanie Burt, London Review of Books
  • “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
  • “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
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