Watermelon kindness

the long version

We are plunged into the world of Jack Hodgins and the Latin American magic realists.---William French, The Globe and Mail -- The sum of all the poems is a powerful, wide-ranging personality, possibly the most engaging in Canadian poetry right now.---Ken Adachi, The Toronto Star -- David Donnell's poems and stories captivate the reader with their inherent grace and beauty ... after just a few lines, you are enraptured with the language. ... The trick of the writer is to take that leap into art and keep the language new and alive. Donnell does that masterfully.---The Windsor Star -- David Donnell has long established himself as one of the important voices in Canadian literature.---Literature and Language -- Donnell's writing is both urbane and urban ... insightful and inciteful.---Judith Fitzgerald, The Globe and Mail -- With more range than any other contemporary poet, Donnell ponders questions of art, history, and psychology while reveling in the sensory and all that makes us real. Whether exploring the modus operandi of other writers or paralleling the trajectory of a satellite with everyday occurrences like lost money, badly ended love affairs, or political disappointment, Watermelon Kindness is the Roman pada, a tough individual loaf approximately the size of your hand. Always concerned with what's most nourishing---why we're as crazy as we are crazy---it's forty percent crust, because crust is almost always the best of it. --Book Jacket.