WENDY DONAWA
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​"Perhaps there is only the demonic journey.
Small beauties by the roadside and 
such love as we can muster."
 

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The Gorge: A cartography of Sorrows
Jackpine Press, 2015
A signed, numbered chapbook (75) copies.

​Poet: Wendy Donawa
Book Designer: Terry Ann Carter
Photography: Leah Fowler
The Gorge Poems explore how physical landscapes and historical events play out in the exigencies of historical and everyday lives.
The Gorge was typeset in Cambria and Copperplate Gothic, and printed by Island Blue Printorium on forestry certified Springhill Cream paper. 
The dividers are Skystone Parchment, and the covers are Saint Armand 100% cotton rag archival paper. The book is Japanese stab-bound by hand 
with waxed linen hemp twine.


​Sliding Toward Equinox

Rubicon Press, 2009


​Poems of love and loss unfold against the changing seasons
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​Those Astonishments of Sorrow, of Joy
​(Leaf Press, 2012 & 2015)

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​“All we might salvage from the dark world; What sustains but love and beauty?”
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