About this item
Winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert WrigleySeason 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.
About the Author
Lynn Powell is the author of the nonfiction book Framing Innocence (2010) and three books of poetry: Season of the Second Thought (2017) , winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry; The Zones of Paradise (2003) ; and Old & New Testaments (1995) , winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writers Award. She has been awarded a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and four Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council. Powell teaches in the Creative Writing Program of Oberlin College, where she directs Oberlin WITS (the Writers-in-the-Schools program) .
