Donald Revell is the author of eleven previous collections of poetry, including Pennyweight Windows: New and Selected Poems. He has also published five volumes of translation from the French (including works by Apollinaire, Laforgue, and Rimbaud) as well as two books of criticism. His honors include three PEN USA Awards and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. He is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and poetry editor of Colorado Review. (Author photo by Francois Camoin)
“Every word counts in Donald Revell. You must read him carefully—not because he’s difficult but because he’s profound. But that’s too inappropriate, that word; let me say sun-worthy, Sophoclean, God-drenched. Let me say grave, trust-worthy, loving, faithful, shocking, brilliant, honest. Let me say for dear life. One of America’s best poets.”
—Gerald Stern
“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. . . The best of these poems are transcendent.”
—Publishers Weekly
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