The Poetry of Steve McDonald

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 Where There Was No Pattern

"Stephen McDonald’s Where There Was No Pattern brims with life—both with the pulse of diminutive characters (a sow bug wonderfully imagined as God, a bluegill, and sand crabs)—and with the larger beings enlivening the poet’s world: friends, children, saints, dead oaks, a student, a Honda-driving French horn player, and Superman. . . . McDonald is a poet graced with a deft imagination, a poignant sense of mortality, and true insight into human pathos."—Maurya Simon, author of Ghost Orchid, nominated for 2004 National Book Award in Poetry

"These are poems of praise—for a sand crab's "feathery feet," a sowbug, "curled crustacean, closing with a perfect click," a grape, "taut skin caught cool and solid." Even mowing the lawn, "the long straight strides . . . pattern where there was no pattern." With lyricism and an open heart, Steve McDonald offers us the things of this world."—Ellen Bass, award-winning author of Mules of Love

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