The Forked Rivers
Nancy Donegan
"Nancy Donegan has a marvelous ear for language and for the hidden
utterance, what goes for raw speech in current parlance, that makes a poem resonate just
beneath the surface of the telling. She is capable of making music of seeming disparate
lines that fade and reappear in the corpus of her work. She is always probing for the
epiphanies that sound, again and again, in her poems."
—Michael S. Harper
"Through these dreams of death and efforts of renewal Donegan follows
'a line of light-eaters' to the reassuring springs where 'the red-bud opens first.' It is
a line worth following."
—C. D. Wright
about the author
Nancy Donegan was born in Watertown, Massachusetts and has lived in Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island. She graduated from Boston College and received an M.A. in Creative Writing from Brown University. She has received awards for writing from the American Academy of Poets and from the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Commission. She teaches in the English Department at Brown University.
Author photo by Walter Davis
