Fluke Print
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Jeffery Donaldson's Fluke Print reflects on chance occurrences, on quiet, familiar scenes and impressions-prints, if you will-in which `Each word's a wake that, glancing, folds aside / in parting phrases, under a furrowed brow, / then opens into passing stillnesses...' His is a poetic world in which myth and memory are fitting counterparts to science and knowledge; in which pain, passion, and patience are equally worthy sources of inspiration; in which space and time are relative concepts, illusions of each other, points of intersection on a continuum that is vast and may, in the end, be unknowable.
In Fluke Print, Donaldson invites readers to don the mantle of a man filled with questions and doubt, to approach the cagey, skittish muse, to conjugate the moods of selfhood and to seek apprenticeship to a great scholar of being.
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Jeffery Donaldson is the author of five previous collections of poetry, most recently Slack Action (Porcupine's Quill, 2011), which was shortlisted for the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Poetry. Palilalia (McGill-Queen's, 2008) was a finalist for the Canadian Author's Association Award for Poetry. Donaldson has also written works of criticism on poetry and metaphor. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where he teaches poetry and American literature at McMaster University.