Chronic: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award)

The first poetry collection by D. A. Powell since his remarkable trilogy of Tea Lunch and Cocktails a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award so many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness that easily falls among the dropseed: a rind a left-behind from "no picnic" In these brilliant new poems from one of contemporary poetrys most intriguing singular voices D. A. Powell strikes out for the farther territories of love and comes back from those fields with loss with flowers faded "blossom blast and dieback." Chronic describes the flutter and cruelty of erotic encounter temptation and bitter heartsickness but with Powells deep lyric beauty and his own brand of dark wit.