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Vellum, the exquisite debut collection from Matt Donovan, meditates on beauty, art, and the violence that is sometimes inherent in both.
Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from history, biography, and personal narrative. In the poignant "Saint Catherine in an O," a knife bears unlikely duality--an object stirring with danger and grace.
"A man plays slide guitar / with his pocketknife, accompanying the words of his songs--/ one about light, the Lord moving on water . . . / how blood, he knows, will make him whole." In other poems, he reflects upon master artists, who captured similar themes in their art though in different mediums. Brimming with poems that are quietly powerful, Vellum marks the arrival of a commanding new voice.
Author: Matt Donovan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 04/07/2007
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.12w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780618822126
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/22/2007 pg. 15
Library Journal 05/07/2007
Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from history, biography, and personal narrative. In the poignant "Saint Catherine in an O," a knife bears unlikely duality--an object stirring with danger and grace.
"A man plays slide guitar / with his pocketknife, accompanying the words of his songs--/ one about light, the Lord moving on water . . . / how blood, he knows, will make him whole." In other poems, he reflects upon master artists, who captured similar themes in their art though in different mediums. Brimming with poems that are quietly powerful, Vellum marks the arrival of a commanding new voice.
Author: Matt Donovan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 04/07/2007
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.12w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780618822126
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/22/2007 pg. 15
Library Journal 05/07/2007
About the Author
Donovan, Matt: - Matt Donovan is a multi-award winning author including the 2006 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry, selected by Mark Doty and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Donovan's poems have appeared in several journals, including Poetry, Agni, the Gettysburg Review, and the Kenyon Review. He received his MFA from New York University and in 2004 was awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He currently teaches at Santa Fe University of Art and Design and is collaborating on a chamber opera.
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