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Donahue, Joseph

Christopher Pub. House

Before Creation

Central Park Editions

Poetry. Keeping vigil through the night in the realm of the Terra Lucida, which, according to Islamic scholar Henry Corbin, is "the land that secretes its own light," Joseph Donahue's DARK CHURCH lures a pilgrim fraught with memories of modernity and childhood, and who aspires to stand in its temple where ritual adherents drowse in dreams of healing and oracular pronouncements intimate a destiny belonging both to this world and the next. "Long ago, / the truest part of you… / began to approach / the condition of stone." At once vatic, nostalgic, cryptic, and clear, DARK CHURCH is a book of unremitting visionary power.

Dark Church

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Verge Books

Poetry. "There is a relentless generosity to Joseph Donahue's newest collection, as seemingly everything can find its place among the contours of his poetry. By turns worldly and visionary, RED FLASH ON A BLACK FIELD accomodates Charles Olson and David Lynch, Nietzsche, and a theology bursting from pure, luminous words of radical intent. In the hands of this consummate craftsman, 'consciousness is a continual fire,' and the world of words is ablaze."—Susan Howe

Red Flash on a Black Field

History & Criticism

Black Square Editions

Poetry. "'Hints and symbols die out. / All's actual now.' These lines seem to contain the germ of Joseph Donahue's massive, mesmerising new book, INCIDENTAL ECLIPSE. Something is going under, something is coming to the surface; each is documented by two voices, one speaking in italics. This sequence confirms Donahue as one of the major American poets of our time."—John Ashbery

Incidental Eclipse

Talisman House, Publishers

Poetry. "TERRA LUCIDA, Joseph Donahue's ongoing magnum opus, is an astonishing work in which psychopompic dispatch and apocalyptic portent, by turns audacious and distraught, mix worldly exactitude with vatic unrest. Striking in its range and compression, its culling of contemporary grist and archaic light, its reportorial tone's melodic reach, it allies an unforced, unforeclosed spirituality with sifting intelligence of the severest kind. Long awaited, volume one is a beautiful, bracing, desert island book."—Nathaniel Mackey

Terra Lucida

Poetry. "Picasso said that whenever he painted there might not be an object, but there was the fragrance of an object. In DISSOLVES, Joseph Donahue combines something like an object with something like a fragrance. His cubism, unglazed and personal, produces magical other dimensions."&mdash;David Shapiro

Dissolves (Terra Lucida IV-VIII)

Poetry. "WIND MAPS I-VII as a whole has an almost Cantos-like sweep, sampling voices from far and wide, not random but gathered. The unity of the book inheres in the tone of something impending--a mystical apocalypse? All of the words have been blown to their present locations by the force of this Impending/Upending. The book fairly rings with these cumulating/culminating signals--like the ear of a radio telescope receiving messages, just reaching us now, from a long-ago exploded planet."--Andrew Joron

Wind Maps I-VII

The newest collection of poetry from Joseph Donahue Poetry.

Infinite Criteria

World Well Broken

Talisman House Pub

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