WOEBEGONE AND OTHER POEMS

WOEBEGONE AND OTHER POEMSFrom the press: Woebegone and Other Poems introduces Claire Donato's exacting clarity and revelatory experimentation to the devotional mode with a collection that turns her cat into a screen for reflections on love, writing, and death. Woebegone struggles in being both the ghost of dead Brix and a real cat herself. She enjoys drinking from faucets and staring at pigeons. Donato inscribes her into the forever home of literature's greatest muses. Orders

From the press: Since its initial publication in 1958

creating worlds of broken wisdom and faux-didactic writing—memes from the 17th century

lavish text

Audrey Ryan

interesting layout can certainly attract and please the reader

long poem unfolds with endless immediacy

Futurepoem

Among his recent and forthcoming translations are by Rafael Bernal

but rather as parts of webs of connections on different scales

and a surreal landscape

and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

it includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media