Jim Powell (poet)

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Jim Powell is an American poet from the San Francisco Bay Area.[1][2]

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[edit] Career

Powell is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow (Poetry), a scholar, and the author of books of lyric poetry and translation from classical Greek and Latin, including: It Was Fever That Made the World, Sappho: A Garland, and Catullan Revenants. His poems, translations and literary criticism have appeared widely in literary journals and periodicals in the United States and Great Britain, including Slate, Threepenny Review, Paris Review, Poetry, P.N. Review, Conjunctions.

[edit] His works

  • It Was Fever That Made the World, (1989)
  • Sappho: A Garland (1993)
  • Catullan Revenants (2000)

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