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Here is a spirituality that doesn't turn its back on the material and immerses us in earthly being.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sustained apprehension of deep time underlies every moment of this work; every moment is held up against that more-than-human span and is relinquished to it. Domanski's full-bodied, incantatory language will penetrate your very marrow, calling you out of yourself to testify to the world's \"inclement graces.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003cb\u003e--Mark Strand on \u003ci\u003eAll Our Wonder Unavenged\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50051744432401,"sku":"CIN1771315660G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52725742272785,"sku":"NIN9781771315661","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1771315660.jpg?v=1769080268"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-1975-2021-book-don-domanski-9781916393585","title":"Selected Poems, 1975-2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a celebration of the work of one of Canada's finest poets, Don Domanski. First published in an extremely limited hardcover edition in 2021, the \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is now available for the first time in a beautiful softcover version. As before, it distils his forty-five-year career into 108 poems gathered from the nine collections published during his lifetime, most of which are now out-of-print: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Cape Breton Book of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeaven\u003c\/em\u003e (1978)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWar in an Empty House\u003c\/em\u003e (1982)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHammerstroke\u003c\/em\u003e (1986)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWolf-Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e (1991)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStations of the Left Hand\u003c\/em\u003e (1994)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParish of the Physic Moon\u003c\/em\u003e (1998)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll Our Wonder Unavenged\u003c\/em\u003e (2007)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBite Down Little Whisper\u003c\/em\u003e (2013)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new paperback also retains the \u003cem\u003eUncollected\u003c\/em\u003e section from the hardcover edition, which features the poems first published by Corbel Stone Press, beginning with the 2014 pamphlet 'Field Notes', and followed by those featured in the journal Reliquiae: 'Bestiary of the Raindrop', 'Birthday', 'A Thin Place', 'Nocturne' and 'The Goneness of Lost Things'. These poems have been subsequently republished in the posthumous collection, \u003cem\u003eFetishes of the Floating World\u003c\/em\u003e. As before, the \u003cem\u003eUncollected\u003c\/em\u003e section ends with 'A Prayer of Thanks', written for the Summer Solstice of 2017, and the book closes with his seminal essay, 'Poetry and the Sacred'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot simply essential for previous admirers of his work, this collection is a much-needed antidote to the anthropocentrism that prevails in contemporary Western culture. It is surely requisite reading for anyone sensitive to our current global environmental crisis, and to the needs of the other-than-human world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50123284873489,"sku":"GOR013863370","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057496457489,"sku":"NIN9781916393585","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141438730513,"sku":"NLS9781916393585","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1916393586.jpg?v=1751281732"},{"product_id":"all-our-wonder-unavenged-book-don-domanski-9781894078580","title":"All Our Wonder Unavenged","description":"\u003cp\u003eA poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his first full-length collection since 1998's \u003cem\u003eParish of the Physic Moon, \u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Star Bellatrix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe bride turns in a trance\u003cbr\u003e red flowers fall out of her hands\u003cbr\u003e endlessly into black space\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eher desire is a hesitance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eher body warm as if she were dancing\u003cbr\u003e spinning on a floor her partner unbeheld.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntensely moving, these fluid poems open up our perceptions of what it means to be alive in a sentient universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry 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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon 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 (\u003cem\u003eWolf Ladder, \u003c\/em\u003e 1991, and \u003cem\u003eStations of the Left Hand, \u003c\/em\u003e 1994) were short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. In 1999 he won the Canadian Literary Award for Poetry. 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