Season of the Second Thought

Winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert Wrigley

Season of the Second Thought begins in a deep blue mood, longing to find words for what feels beyond saying. Lynn Powell's poems journey through the seasons, quarreling with the muse, reckoning with loss, questioning the heart and its "pedigree of Pentecost," and seeking out paintings in order to see inside the self. With their crisp observations and iridescent language, these poems accumulate the bounty of an examined life. These lines emerge from darkness into a shimmering equilibrium-witty, lush, and hard-won.

Author: Lynn Powell
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 11/01/2017
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780299315344

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/2017 pg. 83

About the Author
Lynn Powell teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Oberlin College, where she directs Oberlin's Writers-in-the-Schools Program. She has published two previous collections of poetry: Old & New Testaments, winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, and The Zones of Paradise. Her nonfiction book Framing Innocence won the Studs & Ida Terkel Award.