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Zones of Paradise by Lynn Powell 68 pp., 6 x 9 |
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| Lynn Powell’s
earlier work has deservedly brought her prestigious prizes and a loyal
following. Now, in The Zones of Paradise,
Powell extends her range and raises her language to a new intensity.
These poems travel from Australia to New Mexico, from the Garden of
Eden to her own back yard in Ohio, and everywhere they tremble with the
restless exploration of desire, thwarted or fulfilled: “my
heart
another / Magellan of memory and want.” The Zones
of Paradise
may offer a vision of what it is like to live in “the fallout
of
The Fall,” but Powell’s lines dazzle with their
sensuous
intelligence and vivid wit, introducing an undaunted Eve who can
announce, “I want to take April as my personal
savior.” In
poems that embrace both the risks and pleasures of experience, Lynn
Powell celebrates the only world we know.
"There is an
exuberant playfulness in these poems, a romp of observation, vivid and
startling. In Powell’s world everything is alive and
connected,
rich in reference, yet spoken with ease, as words open up hidden
worlds. She soars and pauses, in the erotic errata, the vocal colors,
of discovery, of the struggle to love, in poems exact and moving, down
to the quick stabs of the final lines. Lynn Powell is one of our finest
poets, and this is her best work yet." |
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Lynn Powell, a native of East Tennessee, lives in Oberlin, Ohio with her husband and two children. Her first book, Old & New Testaments (University of Wisconsin Press), won the 1995 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the 1996 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. |
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