![]() ![]() Powell's books include Repast and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, both from Graywolf Press. Neither "interview" nor "conversation" seemed like the right word for what passed between them, but Powell agreed to be recorded.ĭ.A. ![]() Editor Justin Jannise sat down with him recently, in an enclosed booth resembling something like a confessional, at the Irish Bank in San Francisco. Gulf Coast is publishing two of Powell's new poems, "All About All Hallow's Eve" and "Is There Something Like Murder for Trees", in the upcoming Issue 32.2. He appears most comfortable with the exchange of trivia-trivia that turns out to be strikingly profound. "Is that the place poetry comes from?" one might ask, but his answer will likely express as much doubt as conviction. When he speaks, his body seems to surrender to a slight tilt of his head, as if he's drawing one word at a time from some far-off place. His unassuming air, his friendly and casual manner-these qualities nearly mask the intricate clockwork of his mind, which speeds past the more predictable pleasantries of small talk into a domain resembling the verbal contours of his poems. ![]() Powell is greeted affectionately as "Doug" when he steps into any of his favorite San Francisco haunts. Undeniably one of America's greatest living poets, D.A. Powell on "The Mad Place" of Poetry Justin Jannise ![]()
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