Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
*Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry*
I have this rearrangement to make:
symbolic death, my backward glance.
The way the past is a kind of future
leaning against the sporty hood.
—from "Bugcatching at Twilight"
In Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys - D. A. Powell''s fifth book of poetry - the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the ta...
*Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry*
I have this rearrangement to make:
symbolic death, my backward glance.
The way the past is a kind of future
leaning against the sporty hood.
—from "Bugcatching at Twilight"
In Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys - D. A. Powell''s fifth book of poetry - the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the ta...
