At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home

Poems by Dannye Romine Powell
5.5 x 8.5, 80 pages
May 1994
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Paper: $19.95 (978-1-55728-316-0)
Cloth: $22.95 (978-1-55728-315-3)

 

The poems of Dannye Romine Powell take ordinary moments and transform them into rare and luminous epiphanies. These poems have the air of real places and real people who go about the perilous business of living in this world.

Powell is a poet of candor and clarity, and she has a wit that moves in surprising ways. These are poems not only to admire, but to relish and share; the pleasure they bring is closer to that of an old leather jacket than of a new pair of shoes. Powell writes like no one else, and she’s a joy to read.

Dannye Romine Powell is an award-winning local news columnist for The Charlotte Observer, where she also worked as book editor and feature writer for seventeen years. Recent winner of an NEA grant in poetry, she is preparing an upcoming book of interviews with Southern authors. She resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Lew.

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