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    Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski
    Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski
    Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski
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    Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski

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    With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, and innovative syntax with delicate phrasings. In subsequent collections, Domanski’s poetry has deepened and expanded, with longer lines and more complex structures that journey into the far reaches of metaphor. Now, with Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski, the long-awaited first selection from his books, readers have a chance to experience the full range of his work in one volume.

    Editor Brian Bartlett, in his introduction, “The Trees are Full of Rings,”, discusses Domanski’s engagement with nature and the transformative power of his metaphors; his poetic bestiary amd mythical underpinnings; and his kinship to poets like Stevens, Whitman, and Rumi. Like these poets, Domanski is drawn to borderlands between the physical and the spiritual, the unconscious and the conscious. His poetry finds a home for demons and angels, spiders and wolves—and for kitchens and back alleys, forests and stars.

    In language both fluent and hypnotic, Domanski maintains an awareness of both the magnitudes and the minutiae that live beyond language. In “Flying Over Language,” an essay written specifically for this volume, the poet explains that for him metaphor is one way to suggest the wealth of being that poetry can only point toward.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
    Release dateApr 7, 2011
    ISBN9781554582075
    Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski
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    Don Domanski

    Don Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of eight books of poetry. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czech, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish.

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      Earthly Pages - Don Domanski

      Earthly Pages

      The Poetry of Don Domanski

      Earthly Pages

      The Poetry of Don Domanski

      Selected

      with an

      introduction by

      Brian Bartlett

      and an

      afterword by

      Don Domanski

      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Domanski, Don, 1950–

      Earthly pages : the poetry of Don Domanski / selected with an

      introduction by Brian Bartlett; and an afterword by Don Domanski.

      (Laurier poetry series)

      ISBN 978-1-55ffl8-008-8

      I. Bartlett, Brian, 1953–     II. Title.     III. Series.

      PS8557.O43E27 2007                            C811’.54                      C2007-903603-1

      © 2007 Wilfrid Laurier University Press

      Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

      www.wlupress.wlu.ca

      Cover image: Earthrise, drawing by Don Domanski. Cover and text design by P.J. Woodland.

      Every reasonable effort has been made to acquire permission for copyright material used in this text, and to acknowledge all such indebtedness accurately. Any errors and omissions called to the publisher’s attention will be corrected in future printings.

      This book is printed on Ancient Forest Friendly paper (100% post-consumer recycled).

      Printed in Canada

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a licence from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright licence, visit www.accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, Neil Besner

      Biographical Note

      Introduction: The Trees Are Full of Rings, Brian Bartlett

      Beldam

      Angels

      Summer Job: Hospital Morgue

      Summer-Piece

      The Sacrifice

      Sunrise at Sea Level

      One for an Apparition

      A Netherpoem

      Sub Rosa

      Snowbound Letter

      Visiting the Grandmother

      At Daybreak a Hairsbreadth Turns to Blue

      Hammerstroke

      Hammerstroke II

      Dangerous Words

      Looking for a Destination

      The Sleepers

      Love Poem on the Sabbath

      A Perfect Forehead

      The Ape of God

      The God of Folding

      Excathedra

      Fata Morgana

      Epiphany Under Thunderclouds

      Before the Plague and the Breaking of Fingers

      Lethean Lock—Mnemonic Key

      He Leans Homeward

      House

      Taking the Train to Fredericton

      The Passageway

      Walking Away

      What the Bestiary Said

      Sentient Beings

      Sleep’s Ova

      Banns

      Afterword: Flying Over Language, by Don Domanski

      Acknowledgements

      Foreword

      At the beginning of the twenty-first century, poetry in Canada—writing and publishing it, reading and thinking about it—finds itself in a strangely conflicted place. We have many strong poets continuing to produce exciting new work, and there is still a small audience for poetry; but increasingly, poetry is becoming a vulnerable art, for reasons that don’t need to be rehearsed.

      But there are things to be done: we need more real engagement with our poets. There needs to be more access to their work in more venues—in classrooms, in the public arena, in the media—and there needs to be more, and more different kinds of publications, that make the wide range of our contemporary poetry more widely available.

      The hope that animates this new series from Wilfrid Laurier University Press is that these volumes will help to create and sustain the larger reader-ship that contemporary Canadian poetry so richly deserves. Like our fiction writers, our poets are much celebrated abroad; they should just as properly be better known at home.

      Our idea has been to ask a critic (sometimes herself a poet) to select thirty-five poems from across a poet’s career; write an engaging, accessible introduction; and have the poet write an afterword. In this way, we think that the usual practice of teaching a poet through eight or twelve poems from an anthology will be much improved upon; and readers in and out of classrooms will have more useful, engaging, and comprehensive introductions to a poet’s work. Readers might also come to see more readily, we hope, the connections among, as well as the distances between, the life and the work.

      It was the ending of an Al Purdy poem that gave Margaret Laurence the epigraph for The Diviners: but they had their being once / and left a place to stand on. Our poets still do, and they are leaving many places to stand on. We hope that this series will help, variously, to show how and why this is so.

      —Neil Besner

      General Editor

      Biographical Note

      Don Domanski was born on Cape

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