Woebegone and Other Poems

Author: Claire Donato

Publisher: Theaphora (2025)

Woebegone and Other Poems introduces Claire Donato's exacting clarity and revelatory experimentation to the devotional mode with a collection that turns her cat into a screen for reflections on love, writing, and death. Woebegone struggles in being both the ghost of dead Brix and a real cat herself. She enjoys drinking from faucets and staring at pigeons. Donato inscribes her into the forever home of literature's greatest muses.

Orders include a limited run Woebegone key charm based on the character sprite from the accompanying videogame 'Woebegone's Song.'