Description
Poetry. The spirits hovering around Thomas Devaney's new collection, RUNAWAY GOAT CART, "include Philip Whalen and Erik Satie, Thelonious Monk and James Madison—maybe they have something to do with the astringent buoyancy and 'essential tension' of these poems…"—Geoffrey O'Brien
Author Bio
Thomas Devaney is a poet and the author of You Are the Battery (Black Square Editions, 2019) Getting to Philadelphia (Hanging Loose Press, 2019), Runaway Goat Cart (Hanging Loose Press, 2015), Calamity Jane (Furniture Press Books, 2014), The Picture that Remains with photographer Will Brown (The Print Center, 2014), A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007), and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999). Devaney is the producer and co-director with Greenhouse Media of the documentary The Bicentennial in Philadelphia (slated for 2020). He is a 2014 Pew Fellow in the Arts and teaches at Haverford College.
Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA