All Our Wonder Unavenged

by Don Domanski

Overview

A poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe.

In his first full-length collection since 1998's Parish of the Psychic Moon, Don Domanski writes with clarity of vision. He is a poet of the holiness of subtleties, a master of mindfulness and being. His writing is a form of osmosis, spirit seeping through the details of each poem, creating a marvel of metaphysics and language distilled to purest energy. Living in the moment here is synonymous with being the moment, a transformation that is stunning to inhabit. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771315951
Publisher:	Brick Books
Publication date:	04/24/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Don Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has published eight books of poetry. Two of his books (Wolf Ladder, 1991, and Stations of the Left Hand, 1994) were short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. In 1999 he won the Canadian Literary Award for Poetry. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czechoslovakian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Read an Excerpt

The Star Bellatrix

the bride turns in a trance

red flowers fall out of her hands

endlessly into black space

her desire is a hesitance

her body warm as if she were dancing

spinning on a floor      her partner unbeheld.

Table of Contents

Drowning Water
Leaning on Silk     13
Our Little Boat Drifting     19
Leviathan     20
Five Thousand Young Deer     24
Slayer in a Told World     25
An Old Animal Habit     27
Fledge     29
Drowning Water     31
Mere     33
Water Strider     34
Untitled with Invisible Ink     35
Twa Corbies     36
The Feather     38
Walking Down to Acheron     39
A History of Sunlight
The Rouged Houses     47
A Hummingbird's Heart Beats 1260 Times A Minute     49
Ochre     50
Three Ribbons     52
Riding the Train in Secret     55
Childhood     59
A History of Sunlight     60
The Star Bellatrix     65
Pearls     66
Disposing of a Broken Clock     67
A Petition to Clouds     68
Scratching the Back of Heaven     70
In the Province of Tharsis     72
A Woman Watching     75
In the Dream of the Yellow Birches
All Our Wonder Unavenged     81
A Lunar Hand Presses Spirit and Flesh     88
Ars Poetica     90
Black Straw     98
Campfire     99
In the Afterforest     100
Poppies     102
Footsteps on Black Water     103
The Silence of Remembered Time     105
A Trace of Finches     110
The Field Sadness     112
In the Dream of the Yellow Birches     114
Notes     123
Acknowledgements     125
Biography     127

Editorial Reviews

"Reading [All Our Wonder Unavenged] is like entering another realm, or ... glimpsing a strange, hidden side to our familiar world ... Domanski's poetry is a kind of alchemy." Ñ Barbara Carey, The Toronto Star"

... Endless, ecstatic configurations ... Stunning is his array of unusual verbs ... Reading Domanski is like rummaging around in wisdom scripture." Ñ George Elliot Clarke, The Halifax Chronicle-Herald

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