{"product_id":"willow-hammer-paperback-1","title":"Willow Hammer - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Donnelly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWillow Hammer\u003c\/i\u003e is a consummate lyric of the aftermath. In his fifth book, Patrick Donnelly has his face pressed against the eyepiece as he looks unsparingly at the past, generating a sequence of poems that fans out kaleidoscopically upon learning, twenty years afterward, that his stepfather assaulted his sister. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In response to this crime, Donnelly traces the consequences of ignorance, denial, bargaining, complicity, and finally revelation that reverberated through his and his loved ones' lives for five decades. His discovery of this catalyzing violation not only recontextualizes the siblings' shared history, but inflects the present as--finding analogues of his sister's abuse in the classical canon--he remembers his escape from home into spiritual disciplines and the study of dead languages. Revisiting the evolution of his own sexuality, he remembers singing a Byrd \u003ci\u003eMass\u003c\/i\u003e after a night at a gay bathhouse, characterizing the tenor and bass as \"two wrestling saints,\" \"lowest of the four voices-- \/ once I thought I saw them kiss each other's faces.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And that--recovering glimpses of his sister's unknowable interiority, reckoning with a truth that is unbearable and inescapable--is this book's difficult and endless work. In the wake of a particular kind of harm, \u003ci\u003eWillow Hammer \u003c\/i\u003eseems to suggest, justice may be a wishful concept--but that doesn't preclude testimony and salvage. \"Now\" documents the poet's arrival at this compromise: \"I remember my \/ little sister that was, \/ little willow of glass \/ upon whom he laid \/ his hammer hands.\" There is no revocation of the hands, but with tenderness, wit, and fury, Donnelly's lyrics refuse to let their shadow obscure his sister's recovery of her own agency. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Donnelly is the author of five books of poetry. Former poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, Donnelly is program director of The Frost Place, a center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost's old homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other journals. Donnelly's translations with Stephen D. Miller of classical Japanese poetry were awarded the 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Donnelly's other awards include a U.S.\/Japan Creative Artists Program Award, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and an Amy Clampitt Residency Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 9.03 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353520881913,"sku":"9781961897304","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/lQ7ESxWngf9781961897304_6c5147d7-eb20-4e90-98eb-e4aa9e3537e0.webp?v=1769825074","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/willow-hammer-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}