Description
- Kind: Chapbook
- Pages: 32
- Language: English
- ISBN: 978-1-933675-29-9
Praise
“Joseph Donahue’s Terra Lucida is a fiercely, finely wrought essay on death & transfiguration: a work composed of acutely angled silences, lines of memory out of alignment with time. The tension of a tonal irresolution pervades each cycle of this continuing song: is it only the trembling of the light before extinction, or the sign of something overbrimming, about to spill over even that ultimate limit? Donahue’s poetry of passage is convergent upon a vanishing point of impending revelation.” —Andrew Joron
Excerpt
As in a box
lodged in light
in celestial radiance,
as in a room inside the sun
where souls lie idle,
cool and quiet,
awaiting their fate
as the black walls gleam,
while hearing, at last,
the cantilation of
the spheres: a
microphone
or two, at
most, outside,
amid whispers
of rebirth . . .
Author
Joseph Donahue has published three books of poetry, most recently Incidental Eclipse.(Talisman, 2003.) The Copper Scroll is a section of an ongoing poem, Terra Lucida. Three earlier sections have appeared as chapbooks. The most recent of these, In This Paradise, was published by Carolina Wren in 2004.
