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Vellum by Matt Donovan (2007, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100618822127

ISBN-139780618822126

eBay Product ID (ePID)57019652

Product Key Features

Book TitleVellum

Number of Pages80 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen Authors, Canadian, General, American / General

Publication Year2007

GenrePoetry

AuthorMatt Donovan

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-031328

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.6

Table Of ContentForeword ix Part I Pulling Down the Sky 3 Saint Catherine in an O: A Song About Knives 4 Montezuma's Painters 6 Small Blessing for a Child 8 Fumbling with a Field Guide on the Back Arroyo Trail 9 Charlie Chaplin Dug Up & Ransomed: A Prayer 11 Second Pilgrimage, Rodeo Nites 12 Line 14 Those Two Sketches by Severn in Italy 15 Part II A Partial Invocation of Our Days 19 Night Train: A Listener's Guide 21 The Keeper of Hands 23 Portrait of the Whirlwind in Job as a Passenger Pigeon Flock 25 The Scabbard of Limbs Means Flesh 26 An East Toledo Map of Ash 29 Thumb Trick 31 Licking the El Greco 34 A Blues About Wanting in the End 35 What I Mean When I Say Blossom 38 Part III Shapes of Stone & Prayer 43 Trenton, a Solmization, Two Rivers, a Few Tells 45 Patio Lull with House Guest & View 48 Swallowed Things 50 To a Student Who Refuses to Read More of The Inferno After Learning None of It Is True 52 A Damaged Fresco of The Massacre of the Innocents 54 Audubon Diptych 56 Towards the Sound of a Heron Stepping on Ice 59 Notes 66 Acknowledgments 67

SynopsisVellum, the exquisite debut collection from Matt Donovan, meditates on beauty, art, and the violence that is sometimes inherent in both. Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from history, biography, and personal narrative. In the poignant "Saint Catherine in an O," a knife bears unlikely duality--an object stirring with danger and grace. "A man plays slide guitar / with his pocketknife, accompanying the words of his songs--/ one about light, the Lord moving on water . . . / how blood, he knows, will make him whole." In other poems, he reflects upon master artists, who captured similar themes in their art though in different mediums. Brimming with poems that are quietly powerful, Vellum marks the arrival of a commanding new voice.

LC Classification NumberPS3604.O5673V35 2007