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Useless landscape, or, A guide for boys, D.A. Powell

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poetry

Useless landscape, or, A guide for boys

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D.A. Powell

"In D.A. Powell's fifth poetry book, the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the taut, more discursive means to describing beauty, singing a dirge, directing an ironic smile, or questioning who in any given setting is the master and who is the pupil. This is a book that explores the darker side of divisions and developments, which shows how the interstitial spaces of boonies, backstage, bathhouse, or bar are locations of desire. With Powell's witty banter, emotional resolve, and powerful lyricism, this collection demonstrates his exhilarating range"--Jacket

Almonds in bloom -- Tender mercies -- Cherry blossoms in spring -- The fluffer talks of eternity -- Landscape with sections of aqueduct -- Useless landscape -- Bidwell Park -- The Kiwi comes to Gridley, CA -- College City Market, College City, CA -- Seven sketches for a landscape, unfinished -- A brief history of internment -- The bathers -- Little boy blue -- Dying in the development -- Chicken -- Bojangles -- Dying in a Turkish bath -- End of days -- That's where they hide the silos -- Panic in the year zero -- Landscape with temple, mosque and little crosses -- Landscape with combine -- Quarantine -- Release the sterile moths -- Valley of the dolls -- Landscape with figures partially erased -- Homesickness -- Bugcatching at twilight -- Head out on the highway -- Tarnished angel -- Riverfront Park, Marysville, CA -- Love hangover -- Landscape with lymphatic system, system of rivulets, system of rivers -- An elegy for my libido -- Abandonment under the walnut tree -- The price of funk in Funkytown -- Traveling light -- Outside Thermalito -- The opening of the cosmos -- One thousand and one nights -- Funkytown : forgotten city of the plain -- Notes of a native son -- Donkey basketball diaries -- A little less kettledrum, please -- Narcissus -- My life as a dog -- A guide for boys -- Boonies -- Lessons in woodworking -- Pupil -- Elements of a cross-country runner -- Magic kingdom come -- Space junk -- Sporting life -- Dying in a fallow -- Reaching around for you -- Goodbye, my fancy -- Hereafter -- Midnight cowbell -- Do the hustle -- Once and future houseboy -- Backdrop with splashes of cum on it -- Transit of Mercury -- Platelet count descending -- Backstage pass -- Having a rambutan with you -- Summer of my bone density test -- The great unrest -- Orchard in January -- Ode to joy -- Missionary man -- Mass for Pentecost : canticle for birds & waters

Useless landscapeGuide for boys