Full Description
Timothy Donnelly's fourth collection of poems, Chariot, ferries the reader toward an endless horizon of questioning that is both philosophical and deeply embodied.
"How did we get here?" he asks in his title poem—one of several in conversation with French symbolist Odilon Redon—to which he responds, "Unclear, if it matters; what matters // is we stay—aloft in possible color." With a similar sensibility to previous collections The Problem of the Many and The Cloud Corporation (winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award), Chariot deepens Donnelly's inquiry into artistic histories, from Jean Cocteau to The Cocteau Twins, while celebrating the power of poetic imagination to transport us to new zones of meaning and textual bliss. The collection also marks an exciting shift in form for Donnelly, who confines these new poems to twenty lines each, so that to read Chariot is to look through a many-paned, future-facing window, refracting and reflecting, letting all the light in.
Contents
CONTENTS
I
In My Life
Nothing Happened
Sea Whistle
Night of the Marigolds
Summerhead
Excelsior
The Light
Etruscan Vase with Flowers
Drift
Elevation
Where Space Begins
The Yellow Boat
Night of the Gowanus
Weather Heard as Music
Angel of the Hearth
No Small Task
Night of Embodiment
Honeymouth
Myth
Complicity
All Vanishes
Eau de Nil
Domesticity
Nocturne
Not Much More to It than That
Night of Oblivion
Vantablack
Eglantine
Likely Story
The Gist of It
Night of the MacGuffin
The Cows
Ultramarine
Head of Orpheus
II
The Bard of Armagh
A Page from the Weather
Boom
Beauport
What It Is About People
Home at Last
Digging for Apples
Air After Fireworks
Mauled by Dogs
Reality Hit Me
Instagram
The Material World
Night of the Earworm
Hammer of the Sun
Further Education
Notes on Flow
Heritage
Mill
Night of the Sound
Wandering Castle
Hush
Pink Lotus
Saint Bride
The Fish Ladder
Golden Hour
The Voices
Comfort
Point Being
Enchantment
Bóín Dé
Chariot (I)
Chariot (II)
This Is the Assemblage
Acknowledgements & Notes
