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Jim Powell
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Tuesday Feb 9, 2010 (7:30pm)
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Poet Jim Powell’s first collection in twenty years examines the indigenous habitat of
Largely narrative, Powell’s poems embrace the tradition, borrowing tools from prose and contemporary oral narration. His title poem summons twenty-five witnesses from oral and documentary history, ethnology, archeology, ethnobotany and linguistics, all providing a composite cultural history of California. Substrate is a vivid, multifaceted volume dazzling in its lush imagery and its linguistic richness.
Jim Powell is the author of It Was Fever That Made the World and the translator of The Poetry of Sappho and Catullan Revenants. He received a CCLM Younger Poets Prize in 1986 and a MacArthur Fellowship (1993-1198), and was the Sherry Poet and Lecturer at the
