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D. A. Powell is the author of Tea, Lunch, Cocktails, and Chronic. His latest collection, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 2013.

A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Powell lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Average rating: 4.25 · 1,033 ratings · 130 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors
Cocktails
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
Chronic
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
Tea
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
Useless Landscape, or A Gui...
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Lunch
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
By Myself
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2009
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012
Dunstan Thompson: On the Li...
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2009
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