Watershed eBook Laura Donnelly
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Poetry by Laura Donnelly. Winner of the 2013 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize.
Watershed eBook Laura Donnelly
Laura Donnelly's "Watershed" is a delight to read, the kind of book you can't put it down. Each poem celebrates inner peace and equilibrium in discovering all the birds and all the creatures outside, learning that we are one with nature. Kind and empathetic, Donnelly's tone is uplifting, joyous, and optimistic. Meticulous in capturing the details of everyday wonders, Donnelly's work combines delicate humor and well-done research. A magic book to read when you're snowed in. After reading selections from Donnelly's chapbook "Nocturne--Schumann's Letters, " my students LOVED reading poems from "Watershed" and were happy to have a look at some her ekphrastic poems as models for writing their own.Product details
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Watershed eBook Laura Donnelly Reviews
I was fortunate enough to attend the release party for this book back a few months. Listening to Laura Donnelly read aloud the first poem in the book 'Anamnesis' was amazing. I wish everyone could have heard it. Poetry has this way of being so fantastic in print, but it's another world all together to hear the author read the words, the stanzas, the silences – just as they were meant to be heard. When you think a poem might mean one thing, emphasis the author gives to different sections or syllables can sometimes flip that idea right around in your head. And still, they wouldn't even have to explain a single word if they didn't want. That's part of the magic of this book, I think. The poem, 'Darwin's Finches,' was one of my favorites when I first read through the chapbook. I focused on the last stanza, which ends with the phrase “I want to tell them about desire,” in regards to how students sigh about writing a long paper – and the speaker in the poem explains that her mother wrote 50 pages on just the beaks of finches. At the reading, however, a stanza from earlier in the poem seemed more important. The line was “as hunger has always had a way of taking precedence.” There was a pause in the reading, and it felt like some grand advice was filtering through. To me, the poem is an example that one must never give up on whatever it is you love. Focus, and you will achieve great things. To hear something like that out of a poem is the best thing, in my opinion. I'm a new poet. I'm in a writing program. I'm trying my best. I spend whole semesters pondering over tiny poems trying to break off a piece of meaning. This poem had a way of giving me two perspectives, and if I look back again, each time I am sure I could find a way to see more – to hear it differently. And who knows what the other folks in the room had heard, what their minds focused on when hearing this one read aloud – that's the thing about this book. I feel like on these pages, there is more than just beautiful poetry. There are memories, and bits of advice hidden among word choice and punctuation marks. The pages turn themselves. You won't be embarrassed wandering around your apartment reading the poems aloud just to hear the way the lines sound – if you're anything like me, you won't even look up as a roommate questions what you're doing. That's how amazingly well done this book is. It's for this reason that I highly recommend Watershed.
Laura Donnelly's "Watershed" is a delight to read, the kind of book you can't put it down. Each poem celebrates inner peace and equilibrium in discovering all the birds and all the creatures outside, learning that we are one with nature. Kind and empathetic, Donnelly's tone is uplifting, joyous, and optimistic. Meticulous in capturing the details of everyday wonders, Donnelly's work combines delicate humor and well-done research. A magic book to read when you're snowed in. After reading selections from Donnelly's chapbook "Nocturne--Schumann's Letters, " my students LOVED reading poems from "Watershed" and were happy to have a look at some her ekphrastic poems as models for writing their own.
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