The Bitter Withy - Softcover

Revell, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882295765 ISBN 13: 9781882295760

Publisher: Alice James Books, 2009

Synopsis

Acclaimed poet Donald Revell continues to avow devotion to the pastoral tradition in this pilgrimage through the mind's Eden. Joy and mortality instruct these poems, using nature to inform the spirit and assemble the dream of human happiness and unification.

About this title

About the Author:

Poet, translator, and critic Donald Revell has authored ten previous collections of poetry. Winner of the 2008 NEA Translation Award, the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry, Revell has also received fellowships from the NEA, Ingram Merrill, and John Simon Guggenheim memorial foundations. He is poetry editor of the Colorado Review.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

From "Lay of Wood":

I want celestial light, but not apocalyptic.
The end of the world is an old story.
I'm starting a new one.
Yellowbird here for one day only,
These emeralds are trees.
Fly fast.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1882295765
• ISBN 13: 9781882295760
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80