• Source: Donald Revell

Donald Revell (born 1954 in Bronx, New York) is an American poet, essayist, translator and professor.
Revell has won numerous honors and awards for his work, beginning with his first book, From the Abandoned Cities, which was a National Poetry Series winner. More recently, he won the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and is a two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in poetry. He has also received the Gertrude Stein Award, two Shestack Prizes, two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. His most recent book is Drought-Adapted Vine (Alice James Books, 2015). He also recently published his translation of Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell (Omnidawn Publishing, 2007).
Revell has taught at the Universities of Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. He currently lives in Las Vegas. In addition to his writing, translating, and teaching, Revell was Editor of Denver Quarterly from 1988–94, and has been a poetry editor of Colorado Review since 1996.
Revell received his B.A. in 1975 and his M.A. in 1977 from Binghamton University, and his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo in 1980.




Honors and awards


2017 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame
2008 NEA Translation Award
2005 Silver Pen Award Archived 2018-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry finalist for Pennyweight Windows
2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for My Mojave
2003 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry
1992 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
1991 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1985 Pushcart Prize




Published works


Poetry collections

Canandaigua (Alice James Books, 2024)
White Campion (Alice James Books, 2021)
The English Boat (Alice James Books, 2018)
Drought-Adapted Vine (Alice James Books, 2015)
Tantivy (Alice James Books, 2012)
The Bitter Withy (Alice James Books, 2009)
A Thief of Strings (Alice James Books, 2007)
Pennyweight Windows: New And Selected Poems (Alice James Books, 2005)
My Mojave (Alice James Books, 2003)
Arcady (Wesleyan University Press, 2002)
There Are Three (Wesleyan University Press, 1998)
Beautiful Shirt (Wesleyan University Press, 1994)
Erasures (Wesleyan University Press, 1992)
New Dark Ages (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)
The Gaza of Winter (University of Georgia Press, 1988)
From the Abandoned Cities (Harper & Row Publishers, 1983)
Translations

Last Verses by Jules Laforgue (Omnidawn, 2011)
A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud (Omnidawn, 2007)
The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)
Alcools: Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire (Wesleyan University Press, 1995)
Essay collections

The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye (Graywolf Press, 2007)
Invisible Green: Selected Prose (Omnidawn, 2005)
Scholium (Poetry, May 2015)




Reviews


In a retrospective review of Revell's work written by Stephanie Burt for The Nation, she comments on Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems: Revell now seeks a poetry appropriate not only to loneliness but to anger and happiness, not only to freighted symbols but to facts, not only to doubt but to faith. What's more, he seems to have found what he seeks.
In Time magazine, Lev Grossman wrote about Pennywight Windows: it takes guts to write more poems about peace, war, God and children, but Revell's are so fresh, it's as if he's the first person ever to do it. He makes you feel how painfully near grace and redemption are at all times, and yet how unattainable.
There is a theme here and in other reviews of Revell's recent books. Stephanie Burt opens her review with a comment about how much Revell's work has changed in twenty years, noting the stylistic evolution, and the increasingly spiritual focus of Revell's work, which Grossman observes in his, and which Revell corroborates in an interview by Poets & Writers: "What's next for me? I am concerned with the governance of heaven, which is mostly silence. Living in Utah and Nevada, I take my current instruction from snow and sand. They are heavenly forms-substantial and effortless. May poems be so."




References






External links


Alice James Books Website
American Poetry Review > Donald Revell: An Interview
Poetry Foundation > Death, by Donald Revell
Video: Donald Revell Reading for Omnidawn Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
Boston Review > Donald Revell Responds to Bloom Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
American Poetry Review' > Excerpt from Invisible Green

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