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Verge Books, paperback

Publication Date: September 25, 2024

Publisher Marketing:

In this two-volume installment ofTerra Lucida, Joseph Donahue, a seriously religious poet, in the words of Marjorie Perloff and an underrecognized master surely an inheritor of H.D.s gnostic modernism, in the words of Michael Leong, extends the work from Dark Church, the previous installment of his ongoing serial epic poem, whose mysterious edifice made sanctuary for memory, the funereal, and oracle, something both of these new volumes,Msica CalladaandNear Star, continue while also shapeshifting the work into something sinewy and new.

This poetry is not a description but an extension of life.Geoffrey OBrien