The Zones of Paradise

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by Lynn Powell

Pages: 68; Size: 6″ x 9″
Series: Akron Series in Poetry

 

SKU: 978-1-931968-08-9 Category: Tag:

Description

Lynn Powell’s earlier work has deservedly brought her prestigious prizes and a loyal following. Now, in The Zones of Paradise, Powell extends her range and raises her language to a new intensity. These poems travel from Australia to New Mexico, from the Garden of Eden to her own back yard in Ohio, and everywhere they tremble with the restless exploration of desire, thwarted or fulfilled: my heart another / Magellan of memory and want. The Zones of Paradise may offer a vision of what it is like to live in the fallout of The Fall, but Powell’s lines dazzle with their sensuous intelligence and vivid wit, introducing an undaunted Eve who can announce, I want to take April as my personal savior. In poems that embrace both the risks and pleasures of experience, Lynn Powell celebrates the only world we know.

There is an exuberant playfulness in these poems, a romp of observation, vivid and startling. In Powell’s world everything is alive and connected, rich in reference, yet spoken with ease, as words open up hidden worlds. She soars and pauses, in the erotic errata, the vocal colors, of discovery, of the struggle to love, in poems exact and moving, down to the quick stabs of the final lines. Lynn Powell is one of our finest poets, and this is her best work yet.
—Robert Morgan

About the author

Lynn Powell

Lynn Powell, a native of East Tennessee, lives in Oberlin, Ohio with her husband and two children. Her first book, Old & New Testaments (University of Wisconsin Press), won the 1995 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the 1996 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.

Additional information

Binding

Paperback

Series

Akron Series in Poetry

Author(s)

Lynn Powell

Keywords

poetry; desire; The Fall; Eve

ISBN

978-1-931968-08-9

Pub Date

2003