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Sylvie Baumgartel

New York Times on Vellum

VellumThe first collection of poems published by CSF's Matt Donovan VellumThe first collection of poems published by CSF's Matt Donovan College of Santa Fe assistant profressor Matt Donovan has pulled a review in the New York Times’ July 22, Sunday Book Review, for his first book, Vellum. Included in a survey of four recent books, under the heading “Writing in the Margins,” poet James Longenbach’s assessment of Donovan’s work is astute and praising. Longenbach implies that Donovan is an unconventional and original talent, who manages a formal sensibility in his work which serves to guide and coax the reader through the aesthetics of the volume, rather than mire the reader within them.