Prowler by Amanda Powell
$14.00
“Amanda Powell‘s poems are dark, witty, and intimate; at once autobiographical and formally sophisticated; sound-rich; and full of linguistic surprises. These poems are both deeply embedded in our literary traditions and right on the edge of contemporary poetics. Moving, unflinching and alive, they reward the closest attention with a cornucopia of unexpected pleasures.”
–Linda Bamber, author of Metropolitan Tang: Poems and Taking What I Like: Stories (both from Black Sparrow/Godine), and Comic Women, Tragic Men: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare (Stanford U. Press)
“Saying what you actually mean in a way that re-illuminates language for the rest of us is a rare feat and a double-whammy that Amanda Powell delivers with panache. This is a breathless page-turner of a book, and one that will build new territory inside the reader’s heart.”
–Anita Sullivan, author of Garden of Beasts (Airlie Press), The Middle Window (Traprock Books), and Seventh Dragon: The Riddle of Equal Temperament (Metamorphous)
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
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Prowler
by Amanda Powell
$14, paper
Poet and translator Amanda Powell investigates early modern Spanish and Spanish-American poetry and spiritual narratives. Since 1995, she has directed the international workshop in Spanish-English literary translation, “World to World/Mundo a Mundo.” Her collaborative and solo translations and other publications include The Answer/La Respuesta (prose and poems by Baroque poet Juana Inés de la Cruz (Feminist Press at CUNY, 2010)), Wild Country Out in the Garden: Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun (Indiana, 1999), and “Mujeres alborotadas [Women in Uproar]: Early Modern and Colonial Women’s Cultural Production” (Letras Femeninas 35,2009). Current projects include an anthology of European early modern women’s love poems to women. Her chapbook of poetry Prowler appears with Finishing Line Press (2013). She is senior lecturer in Spanish at University of Oregon.
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