Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit

"A strutting, dazzling, exhilarating" collection of poems by the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award–winning author of The Cloud Corporation (The Village Voice).

In his critically acclaimed debut collection, Timothy Donnelly pairs an extraordinary gift for rhetorical exuberance with a stunning formal mastery. The title poem conjures an imaginary play, populated by objects, that forms an allegorical rendering of a single lifetime. In "Accidental Species," he puts forth a remarkable statement abo...