Biography
Don Domanski was an acclaimed Canadian poet from Nova Scotia who published nine books of poetry. His 2007 collection All Our Wonder Unavenged received the Governor General's Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Award. “Each poem, beautiful, bewitching, unfolds with crystalline clarity and with a music that is both lush and subtle,” wrote celebrated poet Mark Strand, adding, “There is no better poet writing in English.” In Fetishes of the Floating World, Domanski’s posthumous collection, his poignant explorations of mystical ecology continue. Selected Poems, 1975-2021, distils his forty-five-year career into 108 poems from books published during his lifetime, most of which are now out of print. Influenced by the work of Wallace Stevens and Dylan Thomas, as well as Chinese poets such as Li Po, Domanski saw poetry as a creative process linked to the act of creation in the natural world, with the capacity to awaken self-obsessed humans to the luminous world in front of them.