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Black Square Editions, paperback

Publication Date: June 1, 2022

Publisher Marketing: “Inspired initially by free-style haiku of the 19th century, Joseph Donahue’sInfinite Criteriaplunges into a life where you appear safe but are assaulted by violence, treachery, greed, lust, then sudden breath-stopping beauty, laughter, music, and loveall intensified by the immediacy of impermanence and consciousness of a world that exists beyond perception.” –Janet Rodney

“InInfinite Criteria, Joseph Donahue, a master of seriality and the extended lyric, has transformed the haiku from the inside out. A devout Blakean, Donahue instinctively understands what it means to see “a world in a grain of sand.” Abrupt, disjunctive, sometimes unnerving, and altogether ecstatic, these grains of sand show us both inner and outer worlds: ‘The molecules that gather/to be you have a fate/beyond you.'” –Norman Finkelstein