Till One Day the Sun Shall Shine More Brightly: The Poetry and Prose of Donald Revell

"Donald Revell, the subject of this volume, is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, translations, and essays, including The English Boat (2018), Drought-Adapted Vine (2015), Tantivy (2012), and the prose work, Essay: A Critical Memoir (2015).His awards include two Pushcart Prizes, two Shestack Prizes, the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, two PEN Center USA Awards in poetry, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Revell has served as the poetry editor for the Denver Quarterly and the Colorado Review, and has taught at numerous universities. He is married to Claudia Keelan, author of a recent Poets on Poetry volume"--
This book gathers essays, reviews, interviews, and online texts about 20th-century American poet Donald Revell. Contributors are scholars in literature, English, and creative writing; many are poets themselves. They consider his 14 collections of poems as well as his translations of French symbolist and modernist poets and his literary criticism. A companion web site offers more material. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Since the publication of From the Abandoned Cities in 1983, Donald Revell has been among the more consistent influencers in American poetry and poetics. Yet, his work has achieved the status it has—his honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation and awards from the PEN Center USA and American Poetry Review—in a manner that has often tended to belie its abiding significance. This collection of essays, reviews, and interviews is designed to ignite a more wide-ranging critical appraisal of Revell’s writing, from his fourteen collections of poems to his acclaimed translations of French symbolist and modernist poets to his artfully constructed literary criticism. Contributors such as Marjorie Perloff, Stephanie Burt, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Bruce Bond examine key elements in and across Revell’s work, from his visionary postmodernism (“Our words can never say the mystery of our meanings, but there they are: spoken and meaning worlds to us”) to his poetics of radical attention (“And so a poem has nothing to do with picking and choosing, with the mot juste and reflection in tranquility. It is a plain record of one’s entire presence”), in order to enlarge our understanding of how and why that work has come to occupy the place that it has in contemporary American letters.
A rich, multifaceted consideration of the poetry and other writings of Donald Revell