Comments on: Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:25:53 +0000

I know I’m a few years behind here, but I couldn’t agree more with you. It’s such a mixed collection, and I had the same reaction when I read the Amazon reviews. If I took anything away from Twenty-Seven Props it was that Donnelly is an incredibly *skilled* poet, who unfortunately chooses to write about subject matter that either 1)only he can understand or 2) no one would care to ponder.

By: Noah Raizman

Noah Raizman — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:24:00 +0000

Just wanted to say that that was an extremely apt review. It captures exactly what I felt when I first read Donnelly in the Paris Review and then what I felt when I saw him give a "virtuoso" reading a few months ago at the small book press festival or something like that, but could never have articulated so well.

I think I concluded that brilliant skill and dexterity without substance was not so worthwhile, but then again, I think I was just jealous.

I remain jealous.

Good review.
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By: Michael Catherwood

Michael Catherwood — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:44:00 +0000

What wanderlust has wrecked your skirts?
They’ve ceased to swish that certain way,

that distingu