Don Domanski is one of Canada’s most original and accomplished poetic voices. In this outstanding new collection, he ushers us into a strange and beautiful landscape, illuminated by medicinal moonlight, beset by uneasy dreams. At the core of these poems is a physical sense of the spiritual world and the restorative powers of mystery. The animals in Domanski’s poetic bestiary can show us nature red in tooth and claw, but also nature as a healing force. The houses, elevators, and shadows of our daily lives become cosmologies of fear and love. A train trip to Fredericton opens onto eternity. The twelve months of the year offer up unique revelations of the continual movement between matter and spirit. Don Domanski is well-known as a seer of the unexpected, for finely tuned metaphors which give a distinct and sometimes hair-raising spin on the real world we allegedly live in. This is a major book by a Canadian poet at the peak of his craft.

Parish of the Physic Moon

Literature & Fiction

Domanski, Don

Poetry

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Heaven (House of Anansi poetry ; HAP 37)

House of Anansi Press

War in an empty house (HAP)

Toronto: Anansi

The Cape Breton book of the dead (House of Anansi poetry series ; HAP 34)

anansi

Hammerstroke (House of Anansi Poetry Series; Hap 47)

House of Anansi Pr

Paperback: 123 pages
Publisher: Coach House Pr; Reprint edition (April 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0889104611
ISBN-13: 978-0889104617
 Product Dimensions:  0.5 x 5.8 x 8.8 inches

Stations of the Left Hand

Coach House Pr

With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, and innovative syntax with delicate phrasings. In subsequent collections, Domanski’s poetry has deepened and expanded, with longer lines and more complex structures that journey into the far reaches of metaphor. Now, with Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski, the long-awaited first selection from his books, readers have a chance to experience the full range of his work in one volume.  Editor Brian Bartlett, in his introduction, “The Trees are Full of Rings,”, discusses Domanski’s engagement with nature and the transformative power of his metaphors; his poetic bestiary amd mythical underpinnings; and his kinship to poets like Stevens, Whitman, and Rumi. Like these poets, Domanski is drawn to borderlands between the physical and the spiritual, the unconscious and the conscious. His poetry finds a home for demons and angels, spiders and wolves―and for kitchens and back alleys, forests and stars.   In language both fluent and hypnotic, Domanski maintains an awareness of both the magnitudes and the minutiae that live beyond language. In “Flying Over Language,” an essay written specifically for this volume, the poet explains that for him metaphor is one way to suggest the wealth of being that poetry can only point toward.

Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski (Laurier Poetry)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Product Description Governor General's Award-winning poet Don Domanski's posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, moving lyric whole.Fetishes of the Floating World continues Don's lifelong exploration of mystical ecology. It is an invitation to experience the sacred dimensions of what-is and to become more intimate with the strangeness that haunts our lively, changeable world. Here is a spirituality that doesn't turn its back on the material and immerses us in earthly being.The sustained apprehension of deep time underlies every moment of this work; every moment is held up against that more-than-human span and is relinquished to it. Domanski's full-bodied, incantatory language will penetrate your very marrow, calling you out of yourself to testify to the world's "inclement graces.""Domanski's poems are intimate, but intimate on a grand scale. As far as I am concerned, there is no better poet writing in English." - Mark Strand on All Our Wonder Unavenged Review "Stunningly beautiful and delicate, All Our Wonder Unavenged is a deeply moving vision about the intricacies of the everyday world. A spiritual and metaphysical triumph." - Jury Citation, Governor General's Award for Poetry"All Our Wonder Unavenged represents the mature accomplishment of a poet with a unique, finely honed voice. Cape Breton native Don Domanski speaks to a wholeness of being in poems that are intimate yet vast, specific yet breathtakingly universal." - Jury Citation, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award About the Author Don Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and lived for many years in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of nine previous books of poetry. His 2007 collection All Our Wonder Unavenged was honoured with the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. In 2014 he won the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award for Bite Down Little Whisper. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czech, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. He died on September 7, 2020. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. we're all slaves to something for me it'sthat whitetail standing motionless on the shoresaint of the held breath saint of the afterimageand just behind him the unborn resettledtucked in beneath dogwoods with their milkteeth jewelling down their spineshearing only the atonal gossipof the untranslatablesighs and cries from the edges of things. --from "Field Notes" A Fox-Shaped Absencenow I stand where you once lived I steppedthrough slant light of the fading day and foundyour home among fallen feathers and dried stalksof goldenrod here you began the infinitesimalsloughing off of memory and started to eraseyour secret names here beetles now moveamong your bones trilling quietly to themselveshere your every thought was a shiver of silenceup the spine and your last breath createda fox-shaped absence in the world here on yourlast night you ended your light-sensitive dialoguewith the moon while the blood-colouredmaple leaves fell on the golden onesand the underworld felt the crushing weight.

Fetishes of the Floating World

Brick Books

Poetry. Don Domanski's eighth book of poetry is full of a meditative alertness that, through metaphor and insight, manages to simultaneously transform our reality and reveal it. In fluid, intensely moving poems, Domanski shows us what Roo Borson calls a "mirror for the inexhaustible" and is nothing less than an illuminating distillation of what it means to be alive in a sentient universe. This is a book to renew one's belief in the sacredness of writing. "As far as I am concerned, there is no better poet writing in English."--Mark Strand. Don Domanki was born and raised in Cape Breton Island and now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1999 he won the Canadian Literary Award for Poetry. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czech, Portuguese, and Spanish.

All Our Wonder Unavenged

Selected Poems, 1975-2021

Xylem Books

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