The Cloud Corporation

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:10:26 +0200

Timothy Donnelly's brilliant, breakneck and beautiful poetry has been hailed as some of the most original and exciting new work to emerge from the US in several years. In The Cloud Corporation, Donnelly shows how a wholly engaged poetic sensibility can uncover both beauty and meaning within the bewilderments and complexities of contemporary life, without simplifying either its subject or its own investigative approach. In a Donnelly poem, the reader is never sure quite where the next line will take them -- the poems pursue their narratives and arguments by surreal association one moment, relentless logic the next -- but quickly learns that Donnelly's is a voice to trust, one which can lead them into astonishing and often unexpected clarities. Writing in the New Yorker, Dan Chiasson said 'If Whitman had had a young kid and a Brooklyn apartment, too many bills, and a stack of takeout menus in the top drawer of his Ikea desk, he would have written these poems.' The Cloud...

The Problem of the Many

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 10:55:07 +0200

The best collection I've read in ages: every poem contains something unexpected and unexpectedly powerful. This is serious, modern, ambitious and bold work – the kind of poetry you hope to find, and rarely do' – Nick Laird
If Timothy Donnelly's second collection The Cloud Corporation was, as John Ashbery called it, 'the poetry of the future, here, today,' then Donnelly's third collection, The Problem of the Many, is the poetry of the future. In astonishingly textured poems powerful and adroit of human experience, Donnelly confronts – from a contemporary vantage point – the clutter (and devastation) that civilization has left us with, enlisting agents as far flung as Prometheus, Flaming Hot Cheetos, Jonah, NyQuil, and, especially, Alexander the Great.

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The Cloud Corporation

The Problem of the Many