Chariot

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Timothy Donnellys fourth collection of poems,Chariot, ferries the reader toward an endless horizon of questioning that is both philosophical and deeply embodied.

How did we get here he asks in his title poemone of several in conversation with French symbolist Odilon Redonto which he responds, Unclear, if it matters; what matters // is we stayaloft in possible color. With a similar sensibility to previous collectionsThe Problem of the ManyandThe Cloud Corporation(winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award),Chariotdeepens Donnellys inquiry into artistic histories, from Jean Cocteau to The Cocteau Twins, while celebrating the power of poetic imagination to transport us to new zones of meaning and textual bliss. The collection also marks an exciting shift in form for Donnelly, who confines these new poems to twenty lines each, so that to readChariotis to look through a many-paned, future-facing window, refracting and reflecting, letting all the light in.

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Timothy Donnellyis the author ofThe Problem of the Many(Wave Books, 2019),The Cloud Corporation(Wave Books, 2010), which won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, andTwenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit(Grove, 2003). His chapbookHymn to Lifewas published by Factory Hollow Press. With John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. OBrien he is the co-author ofThree Poetspublished by Minus A Press in 2012. He is a recipient ofThe Paris Reviews Bernard F. Conners Prize and the Poetry Society of Americas Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award as well as fellowships from the New York State Writers Institute and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Director of Poetry in the Writing Program at Columbia Universitys School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with his family.