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Praise for Credo
“Credo is an intimate and beautiful collection drawn from one man’s life. But it goes far beyond that to show us the commonality of our lives, rooted in rich physicality, growing in failure and humility and the heart breaking open. Through vivid language and well-chosen images, these poems bring us closer together.”
—Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar
“These are the poems of idea
and story, dense with the images of daily life, its tattoos and churches, its
children and rain. They follow the pattern of a man’s recovery, his laughter
and grief, his landscape and hope, his nostalgia and desire.”
—Joseph Millar, Kingdom
Praise for Golden Fish / Dark Pond
"Steve McDonald’s new collection, Golden Fish / Dark Pond, is a stunning and deeply moving sequence of meditations. Here is a poet who creates—even as he reflects upon—the metaphysics of passage that we each seek, perhaps most often while we move through despair toward some iridescence of faith." --David St. John, The Auroras
In these poems, Steve McDonald gives the reader a keen-eyed observation of dread and hope as they exist side-by-side. His skill at braiding faith—in its multiple variations—with the everyday experiences of life results in a “quick breath” that you’ll hold until you complete this mesmerizing collection. --Lynne Thompson, Start with a Small Guitar
Praise for House of Mirrors
"Steve McDonald reveals the sacred that’s in everything around us. He finds God in a sowbug, in a blue-belly lizard whose eyes are deep as every unanswered question, and in his hands, even starting up a lawn mower is a kind of prayer, a recognition that the grass is long,/your time is short. In the title poem, when the boy steps out of the House of Mirrors, the faces of the people at the carnival waver and shimmer. This is what these poems do—they show us the shimmering world." —Ellen Bass, The Human Line