Jim Powell

Jim Powell is a native of the San Francisco Bay region. He is the author of two collections of poetry, It Was Fever That Made The World (Chicago, 1989) and Substrate (Pantheon, 2009), and the translator of The Poetry of Sappho (Oxford, 2019). He and artist Diego Marcial Rios have just published a chapbook of poems and paintings, Assembling The Bomb.

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Poem | Photosynthesis

“There are no accidents. / Anaximander says all things in heaven and earth / as they are born and perish / pay each other reckoning and recompense / for trespass into being.”
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