Donahue, Joseph: Infinite Criteria

Black Square Editions, paperback Publication Date: June 1, 2022 Publisher Marketing: "Inspired initially by free-style haiku of the 19th century, Joseph Donahue's Infinite Criteria plunges into a life where you appear safe but are assaulted by violence, treachery, greed, lust, then sudden breath-stopping beauty, laughter, music, and love—all intensified by the immediacy of impermanence and consciousness of a world that exists beyond perception." --Janet Rodney  "In Infinite Criteria, Joseph Donahue, a master of seriality and the extended lyric, has transformed the haiku from the inside out. A devout Blakean, Donahue instinctively understands what it means to see "a world in a grain of sand." Abrupt, disjunctive, sometimes unnerving, and altogether ecstatic, these grains of sand show us both inner and outer worlds: 'The molecules that gather/to be you have a fate/beyond you.'" --Norman Finkelstein