A SMALL ASYMMETRY
By John Donoghue

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Review by George Bilgere:
"Imagine Marianne Moore’s scientific eye, Robert Lowell’s turbulent heart, and Billy Collins’ sleight-of-hand and you begin to glimpse the altogether agreeable chimera that is John Donoghue. The poems in A Small Asymmetry take the familiar surfaces of the world and probe them, rumple them, shake them out, reminding you, as the best poems do, of just how much you fail to see. In poems like "Neighbor," and "Sheila’s Auras," and the splendid "Solstice," Donoghue’s restless intelligence and imagination are drawn equally to the silly and the sad, to the broken and the whole, to the beauty and absurdity of trying to make sense of things – ourselves in particular."