holding back. "Chronic," his fourth book, is one of those rare collections that moves beautifully between poetry's inner/outer stereopticon. Powell, who lives in the Bay Area, can paint the weed-choked cemeteries of the Central Valley and also the cluttered toy chest of his memory. Writing on love, his powerful double vision becomes one.Like Louise Glück and Marie Ponsot, two of our best poetic double-seers, Powell achieves this through the precision of his language.
from John Freeman: Los Angeles Times: 'Chronic,' by D.A. Powell
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