Donald Revell, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $26 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6474-0
This latest and strongest volume from the increasingly influential Revell (There Are Three) began, as his preface explains, with the death of his sister. Its cryptic, stark, incantatory short-lined sonnets and sonnet-sized stanzaic lyrics take in...
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Donald Revell, Author . Alice James $13.95 (68p) ISBN 978-1-882295-40-1
Revell gained prominence with the demanding, austere and short-lined poems of There Are Three
and the stringent elegies of last year's Arcady,
both with Wesleyan. This eighth book's range now encompasses both open-ended sequences and...
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Donald Revell, Author . Alice James $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-882295-52-4
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said last year that Revell was due for a career retrospective, and this ample and almost shockingly varied cull of poems from eight books rewards that call richly. New readers can watch a brilliant writer retain his talent but change his style,...
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Donald Revell, Author . Marlowe $14.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56924-418-0
A psychoanalyst in private practice for many years, Silverberg makes the valid but oft-reiterated point that many people are held back from achieving their goals by their adherence to self-defeating ways of thinking and behaving. These unconscious...
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Donald Revell, Author . Alice James $14.95 (68p) ISBN 978-1-882295-61-6
How can we see, as Thoreau did, a radiant nature within a nation at war? What can a 21st-century poetry say about the primeval wisdom in a canyon, a hummingbird, a brook? And how can a poet be at once a true Christian and a re-creator of the modern...
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Donald Revell, Author . Graywolf $12 (172p) ISBN 978-1-55597-474-9
This short and wonderful second book of prose from poet Revell (A Thief of Strings
) begins as an essay on luminous mystical vision and ends as a poetic autobiography, explaining how the poet got from the bitter, involuted verse of his first books...
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Donald Revell, Author . Alice James $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-882295-76-0
Readers familiar with the unapologetically spiritual lyricism Revell has been distilling throughout his career won't be surprised by his 10th collection's sweetly poetical lexicon (rainbows, flowers, celestial bodies, trees and birds...
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Donald Revell, Author Wesleyan University Press $14.95 (58p) ISBN 978-0-8195-1206-2
A glance at the titles of the first three poems here gives an indication of the sense of doom that pervades Revell's (New Dark Ages) fourth collection: The Lesson of the Classics...... Jeremiah, and The Massacre of the Innocents. While each...
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Donald Revell, Author Wesleyan University Press $26 (67p) ISBN 978-0-8195-2216-0
In Revell's (Erasures) fifth collection, a reader follows the fragmented terrain of poems like ``a vein of broken petals'' on an otherworldly journey. From ``Privacy'' to ``Cloistered,'' the poems speak an almost hermetic language of concepts, wild...
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Donald Revell. Alice James (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-882295-97-5
Revell is one of American poetry’s quiet masters, an aesthetically daring poet who, late in his career, took up religious themes and has created a kind of edgy wisdom poetry. There is a calm at the heart of these restless lyrics: “For a long time...
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Donald Revell. Omnidawn (UPNE, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-63243-001-4
Revell (Tantivy), in his 12th poetry collection (which is actually more of a hybrid essay/memoir/prose poem), reminds readers that “hesitation and delay must never be mistaken for rest.” At turns memoir and literary analysis, allegory and...
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Donald Revell. Alice James (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (100p) ISBN 978-1-938584-13-8
Ecstatic and eminent, reverent and much-revered, Revell (Essay: A Critical Memoir) continues his rapturous and challenging attention to the presence of divinity in nature, and to the reminders of death in daily life. In his visions, he takes...
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Donald Revell. Alice James, $18.95 trade paper (100p) ISBN 978-1-949944-62-4
In these intellectual and precise poems, Revell (White Campion) explores the darker side of human progress with inventive language and apt allusions to myth and religion. In “Light, Zeal,” he contemplates the damage done by “extravagance”: “Out of...
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