CONTENTS
I
In My Life
Nothing Happened
Sea Whistle
Night of the Marigolds
Summerhead
Excelsior
The Light
Etruscan Vase with Flowers
Drift
Elevation
Where Space Begins
The Yellow Boat
Night of the Gowanus
Weather Heard as Music
Angel of the Hearth
No Small Task
Night of Embodiment
Honeymouth
Myth
Complicity
All Vanishes
Eau de Nil
Domesticity
Nocturne
Not Much More to It than That
Night of Oblivion
Vantablack
Eglantine
Likely Story
The Gist of It
Night of the MacGuffin
The Cows
Ultramarine
Head of Orpheus
II
The Bard of Armagh
A Page from the Weather
Boom
Beauport
What It Is About People
Home at Last
Digging for Apples
Air After Fireworks
Mauled by Dogs
Reality Hit Me
The Material World
Night of the Earworm
Hammer of the Sun
Further Education
Notes on Flow
Heritage
Mill
Night of the Sound
Wandering Castle
Hush
Pink Lotus
Saint Bride
The Fish Ladder
Golden Hour
The Voices
Comfort
Point Being
Enchantment
Bóín Dé
Chariot (I)
Chariot (II)
This Is the Assemblage
Acknowledgements & Notes
"A collection of poetry by Timothy Donnelly"--
Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019), The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010), which won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003). His chapbook Hymn to Life was published by Factory Hollow Press. With John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O’Brien he is the co-author of Three Poets published by Minus A Press in 2012. He is a recipient of The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award as well as fellowships from the New York State Writers Institute and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Director of Poetry in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with his family.