Monad+Monadnock

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Donovan's clever razor-sharp poems foreground a contemporary absurdity so ubiquitous that it often goes unnoticed. Donovan's observations about our crazy-ass self-involved world emerging from her often hilarious focus on the vexatious anticlimax of our moment are framed by a subtle exploration of Leibniz's metaphysical yet scientific Monad and Emerson's physical yet transcendental Mount Monadnock. This book is a mind-stretching </span>tour de force as entertaining as it is thought provoking.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>In <em>Monad + Monadnock</em> Karen Donovan balances a poet's concerns with those of the itinerant philosopher. Witty and esoteric these poems - peppered with toast and pixels deviled eggs and eternity - leap line by line from reverence to irreverence. From oak leaves to sweeping eternities Donovan's manifold sensibility is a mysterious and exciting place to be - one where creation is singing through her poetry and equations taste like lace. -Tina Cane author of <em>Body of Work</em> and <em>Year of the Murder Hornet</em></p><p><br></p>