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"In D.A. Powell's fifth poetry book, the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the taut, more discursive means to describing beauty, singing a dirge, directing an ironic smile, or questioning who in any given setting is the master and who is the pupil. This is a book that explores the da... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Useless landscape. Almonds in bloom
- Tender mercies
- Cherry blossoms in spring
- The fluffer talks of eternity
- Landscape with sections of aqueduct
- Useless landscape
- Bidwell Park
- The Kiwi comes to Gridley, CA
- College City Market, College City, CA
- Seven sketches for a landscape, unfinished
- A brief history of internment
- The bathers
- Little boy blue
- Dying in the development
- Chicken
- Bojangles
- Dying in a Turkish bath
- End of days
- That's where they hide the silos
- Panic in the year zero
- Landscape with temple, mosque and little crosses
- Landscape with combine
- Quarantine
- Release the sterile moths
- Valley of the dolls
- Landscape with figures partially erased
- Homesickness
- Bugcatching at twilight
- Head out on the highway
- Tarnished angel
- Riverfront Park, Marysville, CA
- Love hangover
- Landscape with lymphatic system, system of rivulets, system of rivers
- An elegy for my libido
- Abandonment under the walnut tree
- The price of funk in Funkytown
- Traveling light
- A guide for boys. Outside Thermalito
- The opening of the cosmos
- One thousand and one nights
- Funkytown : forgotten city of the plain
- Notes of a native son
- Donkey basketball diaries
- A little less kettledrum, please
- Narcissus
- My life as a dog
- A guide for boys
- Boonies
- Lessons in woodworking
- Pupil
- Elements of a cross-country runner
- Magic kingdom come
- Space junk
- Sporting life
- Dying in a fallow
- Reaching around for you
- Goodbye, my fancy
- Hereafter
- Midnight cowbell
- Do the hustle
- Once and future houseboy
- Backdrop with splashes of cum on it
- Transit of Mercury
- Platelet count descending
- Backstage pass
- Having a rambutan with you
- Summer of my bone density test
- The great unrest
- Orchard in January
- Ode to joy
- Missionary man
- Mass for Pentecost : canticle for birds & waters.