New Dark Ages (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Revell, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819511862 ISBN 13: 9780819511867

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Winner of the Pen Center USA West Literary Award in Poetry (1990)

New Dark Ages is a book of ideas that exhibits a rare quality –; adventurousness. The poems are intelligent and deeply felt, complex and crystal clear. Donald Revell writes about things as tender and as complicated as happiness and freedom. His poetry brims with images, wonder, and discovery, as it seeks to answer such questions as :If the original idea of America is defunct, what has taken its place? If privacy is no more, how do we go about the business of loving? If God and history have become one, what is the relationship between morality and expediency?" And, above all, "Why is it that, in spite of all, the twentieth century is so heart-breakingly beautiful –; a true vindication of humanism?"

About this title

From the Publisher:

5 1/2 x 8 trim. LC 89-49759

From the Back Cover:

New Dark Ages, which was a winner of the PEN Center USA West Award is a series of stunning and troubling poems with such names as Wartime, The Judas Nocturne, The Night Orchard, The New World, and The Inns Of Protest.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0819511862
• ISBN 13: 9780819511867
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72