Padgett Powell Music aligns himself with the Family

aligns himself with the Family Compact and his overbearing

These poems comprise a fragmented archive in which woundedness turns language—figuratively and at times formally—upside down

author of American Originals

" — Daniel Cowper

forgotten for years and remembered as often

Padgett Powell Music aligns himself with the FamilyPadgett Powell is the author of six novels, three story collections, and one non fiction book. He has retired from a long career of schoolmarming which was necessary to pay for things to live. His work of collaborative fiction, Blasphemy and Other Ancestors, with Jean Marc Ah Sen, Darius James, and Lee Henderson, is forthcoming from Gordon Hill Press in Spring 2024.