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Jim Powell

Born

The United States

Genre

Poetry, Translation

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Jim Powell is an American poet, translator, and classicist from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Powell’s poetry of 1977-2007 is collected in It Was Fever That Made The World (1989) and Substrate (2009). He has translated the poetry of Sappho (1993, rev. 2007) and selections from other ancient Greek and Latin lyric poets, and published essays and reviews. Thom Gunn and Robert Duncan were teachers, mentors and friends; he was a member of Duncan’s Homer Group. He was poet-in-residence at Reed College (1988–90), a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley, a MacArthur Fellow (1993–98), the Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago (2005), and 2014 recipient of the Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Award for Poetry.

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Average rating: 3.95 · 110 ratings · 17 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Poetry of Sappho by Sappho, Jim Powell (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 538 ratings — published -550 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Garland by Sappho, Jim Powell (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It Was Fever That Made the World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Substrate: Poems liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Jim Powell (?)

“Eros limbslackener shakes me again—
that sweet, bitter, impossible creature.”
― Jim Powell, The Poetry of Sappho

tags: eros, poetry, sappho, the-poetry-of-sappho

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