Nocturne – Schumann’s Letters by Laura Donnelly

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“Herself a classical pianist, Laura Donnelly has composed her poems with an exquisite ear and a delicate touch. In Nocturne – Schumann’s Letters we are gently led into the soulful wonder of the arrival of music within the mystery of the man, ‘everything a song.’ With gratitude we listen to this empathic accompaniment to Schumann’s work, music we can hear only in these care-filled poems.”

–Jack Ridl

 

“In Nocturne – Schumann’s Letters, Laura Donnelly explores with delicacy and precision the artist’s struggles towards wholeness.  Tracing the relationship of composer/musicians Robert and Clara Schumann, Donnelly asks this: when a thing of beauty is made–a form, a love, a marriage, a self–what irretrievables must enter into its making?  I deeply admire this lovely, intelligent sequence.”

–Nancy Eimers

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Nocturne – Schumann’s Letters

by Laura Donnelly

$14, paper

Donnelly is the author of the chapbook Nocturne—Schumann’s Letters. Her poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, DIAGRAM, Flyway, Poetry East, Rhino, and elsewhere. Originally from Michigan, she holds an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD from Western Michigan University, where she was Editor-in-Chief of Third Coast. She lives in Central New York with her husband and is on the creative writing faculty at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Laura Donnelly is the winner of the 2013 Editors’ Prize from Cider Press Review.  The winning manuscript, Watershed, is her first full-length collection. Watershed debuted in August, 2014.

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