{"id":144248,"date":"2020-04-10T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=144248"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:05:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:05:52","slug":"poets-on-couches-timothy-donnelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/10\/poets-on-couches-timothy-donnelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Poets on Couches: Timothy Donnelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/timothy-donnelly2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-144261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/timothy-donnelly2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/timothy-donnelly2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/timothy-donnelly2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/timothy-donnelly2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In this series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times\u2014broadcasting straight from their couches to yours. These readings bring intimacy into our spaces of isolation, both through the affinity of poetry and through the warmth of being able to speak to each other across the distances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mw4UgGxym94\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/3021\/rain-moving-in-john-ashbery\">Rain Moving In<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nby John Ashbery<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 90 (Winter 1983)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The blackboard is erased in the attic<br \/>\nAnd the wind turns up the light of the stars,<br \/>\nSinewy now. Someone will find out, someone will know.<br \/>\nAnd if somewhere in this great planet<br \/>\nThe truth is discovered, a patch of it, dried, glazed by the sun,<br \/>\nIt will just hang on, in its own infamy, humility. No one<br \/>\nWill be better for it, but things can\u2019t get any worse.<br \/>\nJust keep playing, mastering as you do the step<br \/>\nInto disorder this one meant. Don\u2019t you see<br \/>\nIt\u2019s all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires<br \/>\nArise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial had been set<br \/>\nAnd that\u2019s ominous, but all your graciousness in living<br \/>\nConspires with it, now that this is our home:<br \/>\nA place to be from, and have people ask about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Timothy Donnelly\u2019s most recent publications include <\/em>The Problem of the Many<em> (Wave, 2019) and <\/em>The Cloud Corporation<em> (Wave, 2010), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. 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