The Charge - Softcover

Donnelly, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931337063 ISBN 13: 9781931337069

Publisher: Ausable Press, 2003

Synopsis

Intense and pristine lyrics by a poet living in the age of AIDS. He takes his subject head-on without a shred of sentimentality or self-pity. In spite of its difficult subject, this is not a dark book. Gregory Orr has said of Donnelly that “everything he writes is suffused with tenderness and intelligence, lucidity and courage.” This is Donnelly’s first book.

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About the Author

Patrick Donnelly is the author of The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press) and Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012). He is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, an associate editor of Poetry International, a contributing editor of Tran(s)tudies  (transtudies.org), and has taught writing at Colby College, the Lesley University MFA Program, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Slate, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, and many other journals. With Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly is co-translator of the Japanese poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series, 2012). Donnelly and Miller's translations have appeared in Bateau, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Circumference, thedrunkenboat.com, eXchanges, Inquiring Mind, Kyoto Journal, Mead, Metamorphoses, New Plains Review, Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, Poetry International, Zone 3, and Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War. Donnelly is a 2008 recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council; from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, he received a scholarship in 2003 and a fellowship in 2004. He is a member of the Massachusetts Poetry Outreach Project Advisory Board. Website: patrickdonnellypoems.com

Review

"The clear accessibility of his writing immediately invites the reader inside his world." -- Iron Horse Literary Review

"The mingling of lover/brother/life/death in this collection is scented with humor as well as sweat." -- Kingdom Books, July 14, 2008

...he instructs us to take what we need to live our lives a little better, whatever that might be. -- The Saint Ann's Review,Winter/Spring 2004

...wry, impulsive, rakish and personable, offering us snippets of city life that overflow with longing, vitality and pain. -- A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, October 2004

It's grand to find a writer who can speak about the riddles of life that transcend political and social boundaries. -- Animus, 2004

Such complete nuanced rendering of the many emotional connections we can have to a place...is a rare achievement. -- Lambda Book Report, February 2004

This harrowing distinction indeed defines our plight, at any stage of our lives. -- Antioch Review, Winter 2005

About this edition

• Publisher: Ausable Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1931337063
• ISBN 13: 9781931337069
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104