Book description
Timothy Donnelly’s brilliant, breakneck and beautiful poetry has been
hailed as some of the most original and exciting new work to emerge from
the US in several years. In
The Cloud Corporation
, Donnelly shows how a wholly engaged poetic sensibility can uncover
both beauty and meaning within the bewilderments and complexities of
contemporary life, without simplifying either its subject or its own
investigative approach. In a Donnelly poem, the reader is never sure
quite where the next line will take them - the poems pursue their
narratives and arguments by surreal association one moment, relentless
logic the next - but quickly learns that Donnelly’s is a voice to trust,
one which can lead them into astonishing and often unexpected clarities.
Writing in the New Yorker
, Dan Chiasson said ‘If Whitman had had a young kid and a Brooklyn
apartment, too many bills, and a stack of takeout menus in the top
drawer of his Ikea desk, he would have written these poems.’ The
Cloud Corporation
is an imaginative tour de force, and a fine introduction to an
essential new poet.
'The best collection I've read in ages: every poem contains something
unexpected and unexpectedly powerful. This is serious, modern, ambitious
and bold work - the kind of poetry you hope to find, and rarely do' Nick
Laird
Timothy Donnelly's first book of poems, Twenty-seven Props for a
Production of Eine Lebenszeit
, was published by Grove Press in 2003. He is a poetry editor for
Boston Review
and teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.
