Cloud Corporation

Timothy Donnelly was born in Providence, RI and attended Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010) was a finalist for the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award. His first book of poems, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebensziet, was published by Grove Press in 2003. His work has been translated into German and Italian and has also appeared in many anthologies such as Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Poems by Younger American Poets, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, and Poet, Poems, Poetry edited by Helen Vendler. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Boulevard, Harper’s, Iowa Review, jubilat, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He is a poetry editor for Boston Review and teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.

• ONEThe New Intelligence; The Malady That Took the Place of Thinking; To His Debt; The New Hymns; Between the Rivers; Clair de Lune; Partial Inventory of Airborne Debris; Fun for the Shut-In; Chivas Regal; His Excuse; Fantasies of Management; The Cloud CorporationTWOThe Night Ship; Chapter for Being Transformed into a Sparrow; To His Own Device; Chapter for Breathing Air Among the Waters; The Last Dream of Light Released from Seaports; Bled; Dispatch from Behind the Mountain; No Diary; Epitaph by His Own Hand; Poem Beginning with a Sentence from The Monk; His Agenda; The Rumored Existence of Other PeopleTHREENo Mission Statement, No Strategic Plan; The New Histrionicism; Montezuma to His Magicians; Dream of Arabian Hillbillies; Chapter for Being Transformed into a Lotus; Antepenultimate Conflict with Self; His Apologia; To His Detriment; Chapter for Kindling a Torch; Explanation of an Oriole; Bulletin from Under the Bed; Dream of a Poetry of DefenseFOURThrough the Wilderness of His Forehead; Globus Hystericus; The Last Vibrations; Chapter for a Headrest; Tiberius at the Villa Jovis; His Theogony; Advice to Baboons of the New Kingdom; Dream of the Overlook; Team of Fake Deities Arranged on an Orange Plate; Chapter for Removing Foolish Speech from the MouthIn His Tree; Chapter for Not Dying Again

"This is an extraordinary collection – the poetry of the future, here, today." —John Ashbery"Omnivorous, fast-forward, bull-in-a-china-shop poems that deliver more beauty per minute than can comfortably be withstood. If Whitman had had a young kid and a Brooklyn apartment, too many bills, and a stack of takeout menus in the top drawer of his Ikea desk, he would have written these poems. This is my favorite book of the year." —Dan Chiasson,The New Yorker"Like a favorite late-night DJ surfacing from the AM static one particularly desolate evening, Timothy Donnelly's The Cloud Corporation, his first collection of poetry in seven years, more than makes up for all the dead air."—Los Angeles Times