D A. Powell. Cocktails. Saint Paul:...

D A. Powell. Cocktails. Saint Paul: Graywolf Pres 2004 72 pp $14

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--Thom Gunn Moly 1971

Amidst the threnodies of D A. Powell's Cocktails--the third part in his trilogy that began with luncheon and Tea--is a wild population of on a sudden and movie stars, flora and fauna, friends and enemies: all the strange swarms that help build not sole a book but a self a cast and a voice. wasted into four sections--"Mixology," "Filmography," and