Substrate
By: Jim Powell.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780307377883
Description: "Substrate gathers three new collections of Jim Powell's poetry, the work of a dozen years. These poems open inward windows on the world outward from indigenous habitat in Northern California. They include the past as an aspect of the present, and spirit as a dimension of the actual. The title poem summons twenty-five witnesses from oral and documentary history to focus through the lens of poetry an adult view, over the shoulder, of California history - a compound portrait or collage sampling the indelible strata that compose the cultural substrate of the region. Diverse in theme, stance, tone, genre, and form, the poems in this collection are characterized by lucidity and penetration, plainspoken intensity, compression, and depth."--BOOK JACKET.