Full Description
"The poems of Timothy Donnelly astonish by their inventive intelligence . . . we learn that self-knowledge can be adequate to knowledge of the world, in all its violence and complexity."—Allen Grossman
Timothy Donnelly's long-awaited second collection is a tour de force, fully invested with an abiding faith in language to illuminate the advances of personal and political contingency.
Timothy Donnelly's The Cloud Corporation won the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Award, and was a finalist for the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award. Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit was published by Grove Press in 2003. He is poetry editor for Boston Review and teaches at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughters.
Contents
ONE
The New Intelligence; The Malady That Took the Place of Thinking; To His Debt; The New Hymns; Between the Rivers; Clair de Lune; Partial Inventory of Airborne Debris; Fun for the Shut-In; Chivas Regal; His Excuse; Fantasies of Management; The Cloud Corporation
TWO
The Night Ship; Chapter for Being Transformed into a Sparrow; To His Own Device; Chapter for Breathing Air Among the Waters; The Last Dream of Light Released from Seaports; Bled; Dispatch from Behind the Mountain; No Diary; Epitaph by His Own Hand; Poem Beginning with a Sentence from The Monk; His Agenda; The Rumored Existence of Other People
THREE
No Mission Statement, No Strategic Plan; The New Histrionicism; Montezuma to His Magicians; Dream of Arabian Hillbillies; Chapter for Being Transformed into a Lotus; Antepenultimate Conflict with Self; His Apologia; To His Detriment; Chapter for Kindling a Torch; Explanation of an Oriole; Bulletin from Under the Bed; Dream of a Poetry of Defense
FOUR
Through the Wilderness of His Forehead; Globus Hystericus; The Last Vibrations; Chapter for a Headrest; Tiberius at the Villa Jovis; His Theogony; Advice to Baboons of the New Kingdom; Dream of the Overlook; Team of Fake Deities Arranged on an Orange Plate; Chapter for Removing Foolish Speech from the Mouth
In His Tree; Chapter for Not Dying Again
