This to That and Thus: Poems 1983-1998

Author: Joseph Donahue

Publisher: Shearsman Books (2025)

This to That and Thus contains four separate complete collections, the author’s first four books, thus demonstrating the wellsprings of a remarkable career.

“For a poetry that yields such immediate and immense pleasure, the work of Joseph Donahue remains hard to characterize. Joseph Donahue has spent [four] decades crafting a sensibility that straddles the often-reductive binaries of literary discourse. As sacred as it is profane, as popular as it is avant-garde, and as funny as it is forlorn, Donahue’s poetry puts forward a voice that resists easy categorization. While there are many aesthetic reasons that make Donahue’s poetry difficult to encapsulate, the most pressing obstruction to characterizing his poetry is the little precedence that exists for such an endeavor.”

—J. Peter Moore, Jacket2