false 6431950 1 In a review of Jim Powell’s first book, Thom Gunn praised his poetry for tapping “a subject matter that is endless and important . . . achieved in the poem, so we grasp it as we read.” <i>Substrate </i>gathers three new collections of Powell’s poetry, the work of a dozen years. These poems open inward windows on the world outward from indigenous habitat in Northern California. They include the past as an aspect of the present, and spirit as a dimension of the actual. The title poem summons twenty-five witnesses from oral and documentary history to focus through the lens of poetry an adult view, over their shoulders, of California history—a compound portrait or collage sampling the indelible strata that compose the cultural substrate of the region. Diverse in theme, stance, tone, genre, and form, the poems in this collection are characterized by lucidity and penetration, plainspoken intensity, compression, and depth. 6621426 21 4 2009 Substrate: Poems total:3|5:1|4:0|3:2|2:0|1:0| 3 11 5 2 3 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 09:13:40 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 11:27:06 -0700 2009
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And left it oddly disappointed. But because I can't articulate why, Powell's books are going to remain on my mental Geoffrey-Hillesque "keep rereading it until you either understand/apprec...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 12:27:19 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 09:11:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 17:30:52 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 17:30:52 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Nov 03 19:13:40 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 18:30:13 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 18:30:17 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 18:18:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 18:18:31 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6431950