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Joseph Donahue's latest book is lit by intelligence, visionary light, and what Seamus Heaney called the "redemptive effect" as the poet attempts to bear the weight of the world. The Disappearance of Fate chronicles our chaotic time where a forked tongue can strike like lightning. These poems form a narrative that maps both marvelous and murderous events created by the world's diverse religions and nations, ancient and current. History runs parallel with present time. Birds perch and flit through crafted lines. Luminous dreams blend with reality. Donahue's latest book is veined with traces of "immortal diamond." The Disappearance of Fate is an exquisite book.
Robert Adamson
About the author
Joseph Donahue's most recent volumes of poetry are Musica Callada and Near Star, (Verge Books, 2024) volumes four and five of his ongoing poem cycle, Terra Lucida. Other recent works are Wind Maps I-VII (Talisman 2018), The Disappearance of Fate, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and Infinite Criteria (Black Square Editions 2022). He is the co-translator of First Mountain, by Zhang Er. With Edward Foster he edited The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry, 1970-2000 (Talisman, 2002). He teaches Creative Writing at Duke University.
