Name Joseph Donahue Role Poet | Education Columbia University | |
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Books Terra Lucida, Dissolves: (Terra Lucida IV, Incidental eclipse, World Well Broken, Before Creation | ||
The poet s voice joseph donahue ed roberson
Joseph Donahue is an American poet, critic, and editor. Donahue was born in Dallas, Texas, on September 22, 1954 and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. He attended Dartmouth College for his undergraduate degree and went on to Columbia University and lived for many years in New York City. He now resides in Durham, North Carolina, where he is a senior lecturing fellow at Duke University.
Contents
- The poet s voice joseph donahue ed roberson
- Poetry collections by Joseph Donahue
- Anthologies edited by Joseph Donahue
- Critical reception
- References
Poetry collections by Joseph Donahue
Anthologies edited by Joseph Donahue
Critical reception
Of Donahue's collection Incidental Eclipse, John Ashbery has written "Something is going under, something is coming to the surface; each is documented by two voices, one speaking in italics. There is little comfort here, but there is glamor in the inevitable, 'incidental' screen of darkness moving across the light. This sequence confirms Donahue as one of the major American poets of this time."
Of the same collection, the poet Gustaf Sobin has stated that "In these sustained breath-strips, life's disparate, hopelessly disassociated elements find themselves spliced into single, all-inclusive sequences. In associating myth with matter, our deepest longings with our most dire anxieties, Donahue strikes an uninterrupted series of grace notes..."