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D. A. Powell is the author of Tea, Lunch, Cocktails, and Chronic. A two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, Powell received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize in 2010 and was selected as the 220th Phi Beta Kappa poet for the Harvard University literary exercises.

A 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, Powell lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His latest collection is Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys.

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Average rating: 4.33 · 635 ratings · 79 reviews · 9 distinct works
Cocktails
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Chronic
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Tea
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1998
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012
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