{"title":"Donovan McAbee","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonovan McAbee is a poet, essayist, and scholar who grew up in the foothills of South Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. He holds a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a PhD in Contemporary Poetry from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and is Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University in Nashville. His debut poetry collection, Holy the Body (Texas Review Press, 2026), explores faith, grief, and the sacred through dark humor and lyrical precision. His earlier chapbook, Sightings, appeared in the Floodgate Poetry Series. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun, and The Christian Century, and he received a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"holy-the-body-poems-volume-44","title":"Holy the Body: Poems Volume 44","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoly the Body\u003c\/i\u003e wrestles with ghosts and shadows, discovers Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun in Nashville, Tennessee and Jesus's tears in a trick of light. At once dark and humorous, these poems confront the religiosity of the US and explore the experience of faithful doubt, as God himself \"goes under the knife.\" The poems in this manuscript take the reader through the brutalities of the author losing his mother to melanoma and of resuscitating his own father, with \"the cracking of sternum beneath my hands.\" The collection chisels out a hard-earned language for the sacred, one which proclaims that the beauty we find in the midst of uncertainties is itself a solace that, as one of the final poems in the manuscript affirms, \"is more than enough.\" \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donovan McAbee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43972491870250,"sku":"9781680034646","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/holy-the-body-poems-volume-44-8204145.jpg?v=1768302353"},{"product_id":"floodgate-series-volume-7","title":"Floodgate Series Volume 7","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this seventh volume of the \u003cem\u003eFloodgate Poetry Series\u003c\/em\u003e, authors Barbara Robidoux, Donovan McAbee, and Kimiko Hahn bring a unique and diverse batch of chapbooks to the table. Robidoux's collection \u003cem\u003eStirring Sorrow into Soup\u003c\/em\u003e crafts a picture of the modern world on a backdrop of haiku, tanka, and haibun. These forms weave a captivating glimpse at \"a transitional time for all humans and the planet herself,\" which Robidoux hopes will offer a sense of solace to readers. McAbee's \u003cem\u003eSightings\u003c\/em\u003e brings a sorrowful glimpse into nostalgia both about faith and a mother's battle with cancer. Finally, Hahn's \u003cem\u003ewind chime, whale, and downpour\u003c\/em\u003e showcase a well-balanced group of triolets exploring life around us. While these chapbooks could stand well on their own, together they craft a diverse picture of life that reminds us of what it means to be human, of both the good and the bad, in today's world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara RobidouxDonovan McAbeeKimiko Hahn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43972491935786,"sku":"9780998897653","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/floodgate-series-volume-7-8711455.jpg?v=1768302351"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/donovan-mcabee.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}