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D.A. Powell brings love, longing, and lyricism back to poetic life
05.04.10 - 4:06 pm | Juliette Tang |
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I am greatly looking forward to the next stopping points on Powell's poetic horizons.

THE 2010 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATION (NCIBA) BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNERS

FICTION

Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese (Knopf)

NONFICTION

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's)

POETRY

Chronic by D.A. Powell (Graywolf Press)

FOOD WRITING

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter (Penguin)

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED (award to illustrator)

Zero is the Leaves on the Tree illustrated by Shino Arihara (Tricycle)


CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko (Penguin Young Readers)

TEEN LIT
Andromeda Klein by Frank Portman (Delacorte Young Readers)

REGIONAL
Tamalpais Walking by Tom Killion and Gary Snyder (Heyday Books) *

Comments

Doug Powell's Chronic

What a beautiful and and far-seeing review of Doug Powell's latest book, Chronic. You are right in noting what I had not myself noted before, that everything we loved about Powell's earlier books is still available, but that he has grown immeasurably, "the scope has become more expansive and more complex." Thanks for this.

Posted by Guest on May. 07, 2010 @ 10:32 pm

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