7/5/2023 0 Comments Chronic by D.A. PowellHe currently teaches at the University of San Francisco. Powell is the author of several acclaimed books of poetry, including Chronic (Graywolf Press, 2009), Useless Landscape, or A Guide far Boys (Graywolf. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, and served as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University. His most recent books are Repast: Tea, Lunch, Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2012), which was the winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.Ī graduate of the Writers' Workshop, his honors include a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. Chronic describes the flutter and cruelty of erotic encounter, temptation, and bitter heartsickness, but with Powells deep lyric beauty and his own brand. His poetry collection, Chronic (Graywolf Press, 2009), received the Kingsley Tufts Award, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Powell is the author of five original poetry collections, including the trilogy of Tea (Wesleyan University Press, 1998), Lunch (Wesleyan University Press, 2000), and Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2004), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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