Green Oil

Poetry. The poems in GREEN OIL begin in a procedure that sidesteps pronouncement as the poet's role, in favor of a kind of listening that allows for accident to open onto new understandings of language and making meaning. Donnelly begins by performing "liberal homophonic readings and orthographical transcriptions of poems in French from the collection Pièces by the poet Francis Ponge." However, Donnelly listens beyond the procedure itself and hears, "at the threshold of the material traces of Ponge's poems, [...] the cadence of something not [her] own."