Claire Donato lives in Brooklyn, writes across genres, teaches at Fordham University, practices yoga, and collaborates on the digitally mediated performance SPECIAL AMERICA. Recent writing in the Boston Review, BOMBlog, LIT, 1913: a journal of forms, Evening Will Come, and Octopus. Her first book, Burial, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press. For more information, visit her website.
I am writing an essay about crying. Where have you cried? What was it like?
“Read beyond that which immediately pleases you, please.”
A line of advice from Heather Christle
I made this short film in collaboration with Jhave, who is one of my favorite artists and people. The film animates the first paragraph of my first book, Burial, which you can pre-order now from Tarpaulin Sky Press. (See too: Small Press Distribution and Amazon.)
Maria Damon and Jackie Clark tagged me for The Next Big Thing, a self-interview questionnaire. Below, I answer a few questions about my forthcoming book, Burial. I believe this meme has evolved to include previously published authors, so I’ll tag Heather Christle, whose new chapbook, Private Party, was just published, along with Gracie Leavitt, who first book Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2014, and David Wolach, whose Hospitology is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky at the same time as Burial.
What is the working title of the book?
Burial
Where did the idea come from for the book?
From the atoms constituting my friend Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s desk.
Read moreAnd there is no one who does without words
But in so far as one is free from words
Does one really understand words."
Grouper | “Living Room”
“I’m looking for the place the spirit meets the skin. Can’t figure out why that place feels so hard to be in. We’re all of us at this ill-fitting party, busy pretending to relate. And it’s getting harder and harder to fake. Acting like everything’s in its place.”
Amherst College announced the other day that “all of the manuscripts of Emily Dickinson held by Amherst College are now freely available for viewing by anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world.”
This bears repeating.
Amherst College announced the other day that “all of the manuscripts of Emily Dickinson held by Amherst College are now freely available for viewing by anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world.” (Emphasis mine/the world’s.)
