It Was Fever That Made The World
86 pages
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5.50 x 8.50
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© 1989
- Contents
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Table of Contents

Contents
The Crooked House
It Was Fever That Made the World
Home Free
Revisiting The Haight
A Letter
Heat
A Drink of Water
Inscriptions
Lighting The Furnace
Sappho: To Aphrodite
Song
Baudelaire On Love
Napoleon Reviendra
The Crooked House
Fire Signs
The Weaver
A Glass Blower:
A Woman Watering
Mare’s-Tails
Broken Bottles
Captives
Time and Light
In The Desert
Circe
Cleopatra
Heights
Snow Drifts
A Ghost
In Late March
Fire Signs
Between The Teeth
Housekeeping
The Piper
Acknowledgments
It Was Fever That Made the World
Home Free
Revisiting The Haight
A Letter
Heat
A Drink of Water
Inscriptions
Lighting The Furnace
Sappho: To Aphrodite
Song
Baudelaire On Love
Napoleon Reviendra
The Crooked House
Fire Signs
The Weaver
A Glass Blower:
A Woman Watering
Mare’s-Tails
Broken Bottles
Captives
Time and Light
In The Desert
Circe
Cleopatra
Heights
Snow Drifts
A Ghost
In Late March
Fire Signs
Between The Teeth
Housekeeping
The Piper
Acknowledgments
Review Quotes
Thom Gunn | Shelf Life
"I find it difficult to overpraise the ease of this writing, which in one act combines succinct physical presentation and explanation of it. . . . It is perhaps here that Jim Powell, not yet forty, most shows his superiority to many of his contemporaries and seniors. He not only understands the way in which opposites are necessary to one another, he achieves his knowledge in the poem, and so we grasp it as we read. In the meeting of opposites--whether of disease and health or of sea-fog and branches or of Circe and Odysseus--he has tapped a subject matter that is endless and important, and by the thoroughgoingness and the subtlety of his exploration shows he has the power to do almost anything."
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