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Author Domanski, Don

Title Earthly pages : the poetry of Don Domanski / selected with an introduction by Brian Bartlett ; and an afterword by Don Domanski
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (60 pages)
Series Laurier poetry series
Laurier poetry series.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Biographical Note -- Introduction: The Trees Are Full of Rings -- Beldam -- Angels -- Summer Job: Hospital Morgue -- Summer-Piece -- The Sacrifice -- Sunrise at Sea Level -- One for an Apparition -- A Netherpoem -- Sub Rosa -- Snowbound Letter -- Visiting the Grandmother -- At Daybreak a Hairsbreadth Turns to Blue -- Hammerstroke -- Hammerstroke II -- Dangerous Words -- Looking for a Destination -- The Sleepers -- Love Poem on the Sabbath -- A Perfect Forehead -- The Ape of God -- The God of Folding -- Excathedra -- Fata Morgana -- Epiphany Under Thunderclouds -- Before the Plague and the Breaking of Fingers -- Lethean Lock Mnemonic Key -- He Leans Homeward -- House -- Taking the Train to Fredericton -- The Passageway -- Walking Away -- What the Bestiary Said -- Sentient Beings -- Sleep's Ova -- Banns -- Afterword: Flying Over Language -- Acknowledgements -- Last Page
Summary 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 wolve 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Domanski, Don
Canadian poetry.
Canadian poetry
POETRY / Canadian.
Form Electronic book
Author Bartlett, Brian, 1953-
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