Author : Donald Revell
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584295
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)
Book Synopsis Drought-Adapted Vine by : Donald Revell
Download or read book Drought-Adapted Vine written by Donald Revell and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Donald Revell writes with a drunken equipoise among the weedy flowers and bees of roadside museums and vacant churches. . . .[Here] are poems that border the hereafter and revive the child's play of prophecy. What miraculous assistance they provide!"—Dean Young Donald Revell pushes boundaries between words and music, transcending our current notion of beauty and innocence. Personal memory, the visionary, the eccentric, and the divine intertwine between networks of stories that connect past and present through paint strokes, composition, and pastoral lyric. Pure of heart poems lie down in a vibrant field of paradox, basking gratefully in the sun of unknowing. From "Beyond Disappointment": Hence and farewell valediction: "life's journey." It makes no sense. The children mock us with it. A typewriter beneath the Christmas tree Calls to the icecaps. Illustrated monthlies Burn in the wasps' burnt nest. It is Such perfections make the sun to rise. Donald Revell has authored eleven collections of poetry, most recently Tantivy (2012) and The Bitter Withy (2009). Winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Additionally, he has twice been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Former editor-in-chief of Denver Quarterly, he now serves as poetry editor of Colorado Review. Revell is the director of graduate studies and professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.