Though I do read a lot of books I don’t really take the time to read the time to read poetry so I have obviously never read, or ever heard of for that matter, of Donato Mancini until one of my days in writer’s craft. When our class had to read poetry and write about it, there were piles of book at every group for us to look through and the first book that I picked up to scheme through was a Donato Mancini book. And to be honest he had a very unique style.
Mancini studied art and music at the University of Victoria from 1994 to 1999. After graduation he had focused his time and effort on collaborative writing with visual art. He has also published two poetry books entitled Ligatures (c. 2005) and Æthel (c. 2007).Aside from that, I found very little information about this poet.
A poem that really caught both my eye and my attention was part of the Starfield Series from his book Ligatures:
Mustard (left), Rainfall (right)
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