So that poem recounts a lot of the events of the first half of the year 2018, which until 2020 I thought was the worst year I’d ever lived through. The line you quote comes from a poem called “All Through the War,” ( The Problem of the Many, p.15) which is in Paisley Rekdal’s new edition of Best American Poetry (2020). So yes, some of that poem comes from that time and that Rovelli quote, which captured my attention, resonated with me in the trancelike, time-confused feeling of being alone in the Eliot house reading Four Quartets and Murder in the Cathedral by his boyhood fireplace. And I was able to sleep beside roaring fires and just be in my head, and be in this beautifully restored home, which was very special. There were snows happening up there maybe about 5 out of the 14 days. I was there in very early April, maybe late March through early April, and it was still very cold. My wingspan-my armspan-was smaller than the width of the hallway, or that’s how I remember it. And when I arrived at the Eliot house, which has something like eight bedrooms, they said, “Ok, so you’re going to be here for a couple of weeks, but what we haven’t told you is that you’re going to be here by yourself the entire time.” And I was like, “Not a problem!” It’s a huge place you probably could fit my apartment in the hallway on the second floor. Usually I depend on a certain amount of solitude to feel at home with myself. I grew up in Rhode Island, a very small state that’s quite densely populated, but I spent a lot of time, as I remember it, by myself in the woods. While there I read that Carlo Rovelli book and a couple of other books and inevitably bits and pieces influenced and folded into what I was working on at the time. I had a couple of week’s residency up at the T.S. I read that while I was up in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He’s an Italian theoretical physicist…and philosopher, really. Timothy Donnelly: I believe that was paraphrased from Carlo Rovelli’s book, The Order of Time. Excerpts are for readers to enjoy, here:Īnn van Buren: I’m interested one of the quotes in your poems “objects are more like events with longevity”. KPS interviewer, Ann van Buren spoke with Donnelly in anticipation of the event.
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Please join the Katonah Poetry Series on November 15th, 2020 when Timothy Donnelly reads his work, live on Zoom.
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