Your Enzymes Are Calling the Ancients
Karen Donovan

Winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award

Published more than fifteen years after her Juniper Prize-winning first book, Fugitive Red, Karen Donovan’s second collection triangulates our most primordial questions exploring an array of biochemical, linguistic, and artistic processes.

“Donovan expertly crafts a cohesive book from so many seemingly different parts of art and nature and weaves them through the loom and perspective of human experience.”
— Danielle Susi, ALA Booklist

“Donovan’s demanding yet eminently satisfying new collection. . .limns our connectedness to a larger world. . . .Donovan is clearly a keeper. [Your Enzymes Are Calling the Ancients is] for all sophisticated poetry readers.”
—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

“Your Enzymes Are Calling the Ancients is all you need to see more clearly than before.”
—H. L. Hix

Karen Donovan is the author of Fugitive Red, winner of the 1998 Juniper Prize for Poetry. She lives in East Providence, Rhode Island.

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.95) / ISBN 978-0-89255-476-8 / 88 pages / Poetry

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