Shibboleth

by Michael Donaghy

This is Michael Donaghy's first full-length collection of verse. The critic Alfred Corn commented, "Michael Donaghy's poems have the fine-tuned precision of a ten-speed bike...Poems so original, wry, and philosophical as this are hard to come by. Don't think of passing them up."

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1988

About the author

Michael Donaghy (May 24, 1954 – September 16, 2004) was an award-winning New York poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985.

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Reviews

[Caspar "moved to storygraph" Bryant]

Michael's debut and call me a convert the man is incredible. So many colours to this and I want to reread it immediately every poem in this is a new hue, a new construction. Sean O'Brien mentions Borges in the intro and there's a good comparison to be made by the way the two build the unique. Also a lot of familiar poems in here which I didn't know were all in the same space but perhaps just me. reading all of Michael we all have much to learn from