A Thief of Strings
Donald Revell
What is a nation when it ignores history? What is a man when he forgets his life? This acclaimed poet’s tenth collection chronicles our seeming, and apocalyptic, liberation from conscience—and even consciousness itself. These masterful poems, written in Revell's increasingly more enraptured and oracular style, delineate the consequences of such disregard in a manner both spiritually generous, and urgent.
"No poet so innovative now is more accessible, and no poet half so accessible in recent years has made the language so new."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Revell is a post-Romantic, his natural imagery clear and immediate, his feelings never very far from his sleeve, his tone approaching a prayerful devotion. . ."
—Library Journal
“These poems make you want to read them over and over, you want so much to understand their magic, their vastness. We suddenly have a master. God bless his courage, his knowledge, his playfulness, his stubbornness, his loving attention. God pity his grief.”
—Gerald Stern
about the author
Poet, translator and critic Donald Revell is the author of nine previous collections of poetry, most recently Pennyweight Windows: New and Selected Poems. Winner of the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry, Revell has also been awarded the Gertrude Stein Award, the Shestack Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. He is a recent finalist in the 2005 LA Times Book Prize in Poetry. Presently, he is a Professor of English at the University of Utah and Poetry Editor of the Colorado Review.
Author photo by Francois Camion.
two poems from a thief of strings
electronic press kit (pdf file)
also by donald revell: pennyweight windows and my mojave
