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…mehr
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.
Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019), The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010), which won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003). His chapbook Hymn to Life was published by Factory Hollow Press. With John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O’Brien he is the co-author of Three Poets published by Minus A Press in 2012. He is a recipient of The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award as well as fellowships from the New York State Writers Institute and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Director of Poetry in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with his family.
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CONTENTS
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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
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
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