Winner of the Big Other Award for Poetry and finalist for the Believer
Book Award.
If The Cloud Corporation is, as John Ashbery called it, "the poetry of
the future, here, today," then Timothy Donnelly's third collection, The
Problem of the Many, is the poetry of the future yet further pressed to
the end of history. In astonishingly textured poems powerful and adroit
in their negotiation of a seeming totality of human experience, Donnelly
confronts--from a contemporary vantage point--the clutter (and
devastation) that civilization has left us with, enlisting agents as far
flung as Prometheus, Flaming Hot Cheetos, Jonah, NyQuil, and,
especially, Alexander the Great.