Earthly Pages.

Bert Almon is a professor of English at the University of Alberta and
author of Calling Texas.

Don Domanski is one of Canada’s finest poets and winner of the 2007 Governor General’s Award, which makes this brief introduction to his work timely. The perceptive introduction by Brian Bartlett provides some sources and analogues and also looks at the extraordinary cosmological and geological range of the work. There is a note on sources but a bibliography would have been more useful. The selection of Domanski’s poetry is excellent: thirty-five poems spanning his career. Most important is the essay by Domanski himself, a brilliant meditation on intuition and the way it engages with reality in the poem. Domanski has a reputation for obscurity, but once a reader grasps his metaphysical vision, the poems are completely accessible—they access the reader completely, to put it the other way around. This is a must-buy book.