Joseph Donahue's books include Before Creation, World Well Broken, Incidental Eclipse, Red Flash on a Black Field, Wind Maps I-VII, and the ongoing multi-volume poem, Terra Lucida, comprised of Terra Lucida, Dissolves, and Dark Church. He also co-edited Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative Poetry in Our Time. He is the co-translator of First Mountain, along with its author, Zhang Er.
