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portada Openbound. Poems of Relation
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Collection
The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
88
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.1x12.7 cm
ISBN13
9780228029311

Openbound. Poems of Relation

Jeffery Donaldson (Author) · McGill-Queen's University Press · Paperback

Openbound. Poems of Relation - Jeffery Donaldson

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Synopsis "Openbound. Poems of Relation"

The trouble with honesty, it has no / final answers, leaves you in the cranny / where nothing left unknown meets finding out. The puzzles of poetry and marriage are these: How to hold on to what you also release? How to protect love when other loves are put between? In this collection of sixty-nine “fifteeners” – sonnet-like constellations of five tercets – Jeffery Donaldson explores the outcomes of both questions over the course of a life in verse and a loving thirty-one-year open marriage. The poems orbit around two readings that Donaldson and his wife chose for their wedding: a passage from Rainer Maria Rilke about two people protecting one another’s solitude; and a scene from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince in which the prince is told, “You are responsible for your rose.”As openbound turns toward open marriage itself – its risks, its revelations, its misunderstandings, its wounds under cultural scrutiny – the work reveals itself foremost as a book of love poems, continuing Donaldson’s long devotion to a metaphoric both/and poetics capacious enough to hold loving and freedom in the same breath.

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