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The Breeze Behind the Breeze

Cover of The Breeze Behind the Breeze features muted red, green, and brown brushstrokes with an abstract red-yellow ball that emanates outward.

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Pages: 244

Release Date: February 16, 2027

Author: Joseph Donahue

The Breeze Behind the Breeze calls up a world on the edge of a revelation, where the unseen furtively and fervently composes the seen. Unexpected emotions arise in the flow of a poetry that slides between the surreal and the real, from a search for a lost dog in Cincinnati to sunken continents, a rehab clinic to an Egyptian tomb, and onward into the life to come. From a breeze behind a breeze comes word of celestial origins and earthly motions. Drawing on a range of aesthetic and spiritual traditions, Joseph Donahue asks us to consider the world behind the world we see, a world revealed in vivid particulars, in various voices, and in dreams that propose we begin, end, and perhaps continue in an ever-expanding cosmos.

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“Joseph Donahue’s poetic themes are cosmic and humane; his work is tenderly 'learnéd in its mythological scope; his powers of description and empathy are both muscular and gracious. The Breeze Behind the Breeze is an arresting and assured poetry, quest-based, in a yearning study of life. Donahue accomplishes this work committing to lucid and realistic poetic probing and lyrical exactness.” - Rachel Blau DuPlessis, author of Secular Ex Votos

“Joseph Donahue’s work is certainly visionary, and never with more compassionate intensity than in this new book, The Breeze Behind the Breeze. This book confirms again the importance of Donahue’s work, which is deeply admired by many and will continue to inspire new readers. It is exciting on the most sensual level of poetic language and moving for its openness to the most private and perplexing levels of experience.” - Geoffrey O'Brien, author of Went Like It Came

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Joseph Donahue is Professor of the Practice of English at Duke University and author of over a dozen poetry books, including Terra Lucida XIII-XXI, The Palace of Boundless Cold, This to That and Thus, and Disfluency.

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Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-3962-4 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4780-3471-1 / eISBN: 978-1-4780-6326-1 /