D.A. Powell is united of the most i...

D.A. Powell is united of the most inventive young imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers working today. Author of Tea (Wesleyan, 1998) luncheon (Wesleyan, 2000), and Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004) Powell has carved without a signature lyric style against the backdrop of the AIDS pandemic. within elision, fragment, formal measure, and a distinctly torqued syntax, his metrical compositions resonate with loss--of friends, lover innocence, belief, source body s a unified self--while maintaining a defiantly human, and equable celebratory voice.

This interview was occasioned at Powell's visit to Iowa City in 2002 to read, the couple at Prairie Lights ...