Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Powell's Books


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A journey to Portland (Oregon) is in my near future, so I will try to make the obligatory pilgrimage to Powell's Books, which famously takes up a city block. Bibliophiles can get figuratively lost in bookstores of any size, but in Powell's one may literally get lost in one of the book-alleys on one of the floors.

Apparently Powell's was founded in 1971: relatively, not that old.

For amusement and edification, I used "poetry" as the keyword in an online Powell's search, and the number of titles that came up was 71,448.

2 comments:

Alyssa said...

Powell's is incredibly overwhelming and I could easily spend a week (and a fortune!) in there. Have fun!

Erick Peirson said...

Great poetry section at Powell's...loaded up on John Masefield last trip. :)