Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys

by D.A. Powell

Book Overview

*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 taut, more discursive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555976050
• ISBN13: 9781555976057
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"