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Useless landscape, or, A guide for boys /

"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 explo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Powell, D. A. (Douglas A.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Poésie.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle.
poetry.
Lyrik.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
1900-1999
Poetry
Poetry genre.
Gay poetry.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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.