Terra Lucida XIII - XXI

Author: Joseph Donahue

Publisher: Verge Books (2024)

In this two-volume installment of Terra Lucida, Joseph Donahue, “a seriously ‘religious’ poet,” in the words of Marjorie Perloff and “an underrecognized master… surely an inheritor of H.D.’s gnostic modernism,” in the words of Michael Leong, extends the work from Dark Church, the previous installment of his ongoing serial epic poem, whose mysterious edifice made sanctuary for memory, the funereal, and oracle, something both of these new volumes, Música Callada and Near Star, continue while also shapeshifting the work into something sinewy and new.