The Sun Among Friends
The Sun Among Friends
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Donald Revell is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, most recently of Canandaigua (2024) and White Campion (2021), both from Alice James Books. Revell has also published six volumes of translation from the French, including Apollinaire's Alcools, Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, LaForgue's Last Verses, and Verlaine's Songs Without Words. His critical writings have been collected as: Sudden Eden; Essay: A Critical Memoir; The Art of Attention; and Invisible Green: Selected Prose. 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. Having previously taught at the Universities of Alabama, Denver, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, and Utah, Donald Revell is currently Professor Emeritus of English at UNLV. He lives in Geneva, New York.
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“Revell demonstrates his spontaneity and his unmediated, often delighted, relationship to nature …each [poem] is a momentary conjunction of faith with language, addressed with a pellucid power that invites even unprepared readers to join in.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
September 2015
ISBN: 9781938584138
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“In lines that are spare and strange, elegant and sorrowing, witty and linguistically innovative, My Mojave combines an Emersonian sweetness with postmodern practice. As part of a lyric experimental tradition, My Mojave is also balkily anti-lyric, interrupting its most flowing effects on purpose. Drawing on the terms of late modernist enterprise to re-invent and re-use poetic form as an indicator of consciousness, Revell brings to us descriptions of the natural world, songlike fragments, declarations that resemble riddles, and musings on poetry and the soul.” —Brenda Hillman, in her judges’ citation for the Lenore Marshall Prize
April 2003
ISBN: 9781882295401
Donald Revell
2005 LA Times Book Prize in Poetry Finalist
“Donald Revell’s selected poems, Pennyweight Windows, contains some of the most interesting American poems written in the last twenty years. Revell at his best is a writer of unusual intellectual rigor and great lyrical poignancy: his mind is tuned to adages and axioms, pre-Socratic mind-tricks and the gnomic observations of Thoreau; but he has a big, vulnerable heart that tries to live in our world among our entanglements.” —Poetry
Hardcover ISBN: 9781882295517
Paperback ISBN: 9781882295524
Donald Revell
“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
September 2012
ISBN: 9781882295975
Donald Revell
”For Revell, love is a large kingdom, and White Campion dazzles and aches as it commemorates the trembling balance from which the original heart of these poems beats, memory. And though we can’t regain the innocence of the past, memory is a way to re-enter the Paradise of our youth. Within it, advent and farewell are ceremoniously present. We are tied together thus. These poems are ecstatic in their relentless reverence of this dear world and ever-chastened by a lingering melancholy for what gets “wiped away.” Praised be the poetry of Donald Revell!”
—Pam Rehm
May 2021
ISBN: 9781948579179
Donald Revell
“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
April 2007
ISBN: 9781882295616
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“As a redoubt against mortality, The Bitter Withy maintains a vigilance toward the seen and an acceptance of the belated nature of understanding, a tenacity for things on the brink of vanishing…” ―Pleiades
September 2009
ISBN: 9781882295760
Donald Revell
Longlisted for the 2024 Julie Suk Award
“In these intellectual and precise poems, Revell explores the darker side of human progress with inventive language and apt allusions to myth and religion. ... It’s a pleasure to see Revell continue to evolve four decades into his illustrious career.”
—Publishers Weekly
June 2024
ISBN: 9781949944624
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ISBN: 9781938584961
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ISBN: 9781938584954
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ISBN: 9781938584978
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ISBN: 9781938584947
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2018 Balcones Poetry Prize Finalist
“Thoroughly integrating sacred and secular, Revell produces a book of love and rapture.”
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ISBN: 9781938584763
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ISBN: 9781938584756
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ISBN: 9781938584749
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Winner of the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award
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2017 Julie Suk Award Longlist Finalist
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—Los Angeles Review of Books
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ISBN: 9781938584664
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2018 Levis Reading Prize Winner
2017 Julie Suk Award Winner
A 2017 Nautilus Silver Award Winner
2017 Florida Book Award Gold Winner
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“A breathtaking addition to the canon of addiction literature, Akbar’s poetry confronts the pain and joy in denying oneself for the sake of oneself…Akbar’s poems offer readers, religious or not, a way to cultivate faith in times of deepest fear.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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ISBN: 9781938584671
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“Jordan begs us to trust one another and to tell the truth, to read the world more closely, to learn the wisdom of those who came before, who resisted before, and loved before. She laid a foundation, leaving a revolutionary blueprint for poetry to transform our lives beyond the white gaze and its literary imagination. . . .This book is not just a collection of figurative words; it is a tool for liberation.”
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ISBN: 9781938584350
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2018 Balcones Poetry Prize Finalist
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ISBN: 9781938584763