All Our Wonder Unavenged

Domanski, Don (inscribed & signed)

ISBN 10: 1894078586 / ISBN 13: 9781894078580

Published by Brick Books, 2007

About this Item

125 pp, Cover is black & burgundy with colour illustration on front centre, with blue and yellow lettering, gold sticking for 'Winner of the GGs' on front; white lettering on spine - very minor wear to edges (see photos provided). Black front and back end papers. Inscribed to author Sylvia Adams of Ottawa and signed by author Domanski on Title Page. Domanski shows us what a "mirror for the inexhaustible" and is nothing less than an illuminating distillation of what it means to be alive in a sentient universe. No highlighting, underlining or notations. Prompt shipping which includes tracking.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1725303619136

Bibliographic Details

• Title: All Our Wonder Unavenged
• Publisher: Brick Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1894078586
• ISBN 13: 9781894078580
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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 Physic 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.

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.

Intensely moving, these fluid poems open up our perceptions of what it means to be alive in a sentient universe.

Poetry renews itself with each generation, but there is a source of poetry older than all the languages. Don Domanski writes close to this source, where autobiography is necessarily transpersonal, and the variegated finery of existent things is both secular home and sacred text. Each of his books, but especially this book, is a mirror for the inexhaustible. - Roo Borson

Each poem, beautiful, bewitching, unfolds with crystalline clarity and with a music that is both lush and subtle. Don Domanski's poems are intimate, but intimate on a grand scale. As far as I am concerned, there is no better poet writing in English. - Mark Strand

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.

About the Author

Don Rusu Domanski (born 1950 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian poet who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czechoslovakian, Portuguese, and Spanish. In 2007, he was the winner of the Governor General's Award in Poetry.