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Chronic (2009)

by D.A. Powell(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

155597516X (ISBN13: 9781555975166)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Graywolf Press

review 1: I really wanted to like this, and I did at first. His talent is irrefutable, and when I felt him in more designy shoes, as in the more formalist poems in the opening pages, I connected more. But once he started engaging his subject matter, mostly, environmental and health devastation, I found the poems to move much less certainly, much too conscious of and forcing themselves toward the larger thematic concerns of the collection. Perhaps I'm biased against strong subjects in collections, but I'd almost rather read an essay than poems on these topics.
review 2: I wasn't surprised by how much I loved Chronic, since I'd seen a number of these poems floating around in journals and had been looking forward to reading them all together.D.A. Powell has taught me so muc... moreh about how a poem relates or can relate to a page: what does not need to be finished, what does not beg punctuation, what kind of space a poem can offer its reader for present thoughts and tests. His poems are funny to the point of smartass, tender to the point of ache, and also - I feel like I need to just use this fake word - valuing. Valuing of paper bags, of centerfolds, of that which is tentative, or no longer new, but still is, somewhere in the mix of ongoing experience. I have always loved his poems, and the feeling of abundance that I have after spending time in their considerations. less

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