Green Man

By John Donlan

For thousands of years the image of the Green Man - foliage sprouting from his mouth to symbolize humanity's unity with the natural world - has survived in European civilization. Invoking this spirit, John Donlan chronicles the struggle for self-understanding and personal growth. Throughout Green Man, Donlan's imagery and cadenced language feed our "hunger for the beauty of the world."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921870663
• ISBN13: 9780921870661
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Praise From Don McKay

"There's a species of aesthetic poise -- we might call it musical intelligence -- which comes about when discipline and surprise are working, not just in combination, but each for the other. I think of John Donlan's poems as wise acrobats, alive to the many weathers of the self but equally well tuned to cityscape and landscape, performing athletic meditations inside a stillness they create for themselves. In Green Man we have a collection by one of our finest poets working at full stretch." Don McKay