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With funky tempos and stretched, staggering lines, Matt Donovan's poetic sequence interrogates the ways our daily lives teem with beauty and loss, featuring figures engrained in our culture to portray collisions of pleasure with tragedy, including Scott Joplin, John Singer Sargent, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Babe Ruth, and John Coltrane.

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With funky tempos and stretched, staggering lines, Matt Donovan's poetic sequence interrogates the ways our daily lives teem with beauty and loss, featuring figures engrained in our culture to portray collisions of pleasure with tragedy, including Scott Joplin, John Singer Sargent, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Babe Ruth, and John Coltrane.
Autorenporträt
Matt Donovan is the author of a previous book of poems, Vellum (Mariner, 2007), and a collection of essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press, 2016). He is the recipient of a Rome Prize in Literature, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Pushcart Prize, an National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the Larry Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches at Santa Fe University of Art and Design and is currently collaborating on a chamber opera entitled Inheritance, about the life and legends of firearms heiress Sarah Winchester.