Patrick Donnelly at UMaine Farmington, November 15, 2007
From the Fishouse is pleased to present a reading by Patrick Donnelly recorded live on November 15, 2007, at the University of Maine Farmington, in Farmington, Maine.
Listen to the full reading (approximately 46 minutes), or listen to the poems individually:
- Full Reading
- Low Door
- Note to the New Owner
- After a Move
- Fountain of Blood
- Shade Garden
- Prayer After Refusing to Pray
- Consummatum Est
- The Sign at Window One
- Prayer at the Gym
- Angel’s Trumpet
- Apologia pro Vita Sua
- Patrick Donnelly introduces his Japanese translations
- Written on a Folded Piece of Paper during a Snowfall as the Author Was about to Enter the Priesthood
- On the Surprising Appearance of a Strange Priest in the Author's Dream during a Time of Arduous Practice
- Sent to Her Teacher Shôkû Shônin
- it hurts/that what I mistook
- Sent to Ise no Tayû on the Fifteenth of the Second Month in the Middle of the Night and An Answer
- Sent with Her Father's Fan which the Empress Dowager Found when She Moved to the Palace at Higashi Sanjô
- On the Metaphor from the Yuima-kyo Which Says “This Body Is Like a Banana Tree”
- The Gate to Everywhere
- The Author’s Breathing Stopped Suddenly
- Discouraged by Illness, Unsure How It Would Turn Out
- Patrick Donnelly introduces the last sequence of poems
- the debt/I owe the breasts
- Invocation
- Received Wisdom
- My Mother Tries to Quit
- Called Back
- The Truth about the Way and the Life
- Oxygen Catastrophe
- Cradle-Song
- The Mother's Ashes Reply
- Homeland
- Patrick Donnelly audience Q&A at UMaine Farmington