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9781882295975 | Alice James Books, September 4, 2012, cover price $15.95

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By Donald Revell (trans)
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9781890650544 | Omnidawn Pub, September 1, 2011, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Praise for Donald Revell: "No poet so innovative is more accessible, and no poet half so accessible in recent years has made the language so new."—Publishers Weekly, starred review  Acclaimed poet Donald Revell continues to avow devotion to the pastoral tradition in this pilgrimage through the mind's Eden...read more
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9781882295760, titled "The Bitter Withy" | Alice James Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Praise for Donald Revell: "No poet so innovative is more accessible, and no poet half so accessible in recent years has made the language so new.

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Product Description: With perfect pitch for contemporary audiences, this new translation offers all the immediacy, hallucinatory surrealism, and wit that secured Arthur Rimbaud's esteemed position. As a major poet renowned for his strangely seductive power and innocence, Rimbaud was a dangerous and exhilarating force whose break with literary forms and conventions is aptly displayed in this volume...read more
By Donald Revell (trans)
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9781890650360 | Omnidawn Pub, June 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: With perfect pitch for contemporary audiences, this new translation offers all the immediacy, hallucinatory surrealism, and wit that secured Arthur Rimbaud's esteemed position.

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Product Description: The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present...read more
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9781555974749 | Graywolf Pr, July 24, 2007, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues.

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Product Description: What is a nation when it ignores history? What is a man when he forgets his life? This acclaimed poet’s tenth collection chronicles our seeming, and apocalyptic, liberation from conscience—and even consciousness itself. These masterful poems, written in Donald Revell’s increasingly more enraptured and oracular style, delineate the consequences of such disregard in a manner both spiritually generous and urgent...read more
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9781882295616 | Alice James Books, April 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What is a nation when it ignores history?

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Product Description: “Revell is a writer of singular talent and ambition . . . he takes the reader to unfamiliar and strange places and, in the process, he creates some of the most beautiful poetry in our language.”—Harvard Review For over 20 years, Donald Revell has used the pastoral as a tool of protest/revolution against violence and war and as a guide to peace, arguing for personal, natural and political growth in precise, delicate lyrics...read more
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9781882295517 | Alice James Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: “Revell is a writer of singular talent and ambition .

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9781882295524 | Alice James Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: “Revell is a writer of singular talent and ambition .

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Product Description: Beginning with nine essays published in American Poetry Review, which enact intimate converse with an array of writers, this book examines language and humanness in a way that extends insights into the nature and necessity of poetry...read more
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9781890650223 | Omnidawn Pub, January 1, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Beginning with nine essays published in American Poetry Review, which enact intimate converse with an array of writers, this book examines language and humanness in a way that extends insights into the nature and necessity of poetry.

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Product Description: Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire wrote during those years: poems of nascent surrealism, of combat and of war-weariness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780819566904 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet.

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9780819566911 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 23, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI.

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Product Description: Donald Revell’s eighth collection, My Mojave, concerns itself with beauty, with the way in which the divine pours through the eye and into the soul. The poems seek their gods in that place where the natural and human worlds come together, where "miserable cardinals comfort/The broken seesaws/And me who wants no comfort/Only to believe...read more
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9781882295401 | Alice James Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Donald Revell’s eighth collection, My Mojave, concerns itself with beauty, with the way in which the divine pours through the eye and into the soul.

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Product Description: Donald Revell's new work, Arcady, draws its inspiration from Charles Ives and Henry David Thoreau to create a distinctly American poetic music. Triggered by a series of deaths in the poet's intimate circle, anchored in the deserts of the Spring Mountains of Nevada, this book is nonetheless replete with lush, still moments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780819563316 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A musical desert elegy on life born from loss.

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9780819564740 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, February 15, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Donald Revell's new work, Arcady, draws its inspiration from Charles Ives and Henry David Thoreau to create a distinctly American poetic music.

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Product Description: Believing and espousing an American tradition alive in the testimony of Anne Hutchinson, in the prose-poetry of Thoreau, and in the music of Ives, Donald Revell's new poems seek moments of harmony between language and silence. The death of the poet's father and almost concurrent birth of his son form the emotional underpinnings of this meditation on faith...read more
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9780819522474 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Believing and espousing an American tradition alive in the testimony of Anne Hutchinson, in the prose-poetry of Thoreau, and in the music of Ives, Donald Revell's new poems seek moments of harmony between language and silence.

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Product Description: Poems from the indestructible wilderness of American words and silences.
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9780819522467 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Poems from the indestructible wilderness of American words and silences.

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Product Description: Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic equivalent of what Picasso accomplishes in his cubist works: simultaneity...read more
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9780819522245 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness.

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9780819512284 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness.

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Product Description: The world that Revell ponders in these poems is replete with contrarieties, as he searches for the true nature of the self through language unfettered by narrative constraints and conventional conceptual identities.
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9780819522160 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The world that Revell ponders in these poems is replete with contrarieties, as he searches for the true nature of the self through language unfettered by narrative constraints and conventional conceptual identities.

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9780819512192 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The world that Donald Revell ponders in these poems replete with contrarieties.

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Product Description: A celebrated poet struggles with the century's events
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9780819522030 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A celebrated poet struggles with the century's events

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9780819512062 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A celebrated poet struggles with the century's events

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Product Description: Evocative poems about the most simple and complicated ideas.
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9780819521842 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Evocative poems about the most simple and complicated ideas.

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9780819511867 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: New Dark Ages is a book of ideas that exhibits a rare quality - adventurousness.

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Product Description: In Donald Revell’s poems, the present is often little more than an instant caught between the sadness of memory and the need to face the future’s blank expanse. Even the best dreams recall happiness that cannot be retrieved, while the worst memories bend past love into a crazy line through darkness: "Anything can turn furious...read more
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9780820309880 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In Donald Revell’s poems, the present is often little more than an instant caught between the sadness of memory and the need to face the future’s blank expanse.

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9780820309897 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In Donald Revell’s poems, the present is often little more than an instant caught between the sadness of memory and the need to face the future’s blank expanse.

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Poems explore the feelings and experiences of the author and portray New York City and other places which are important in his life
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9780060151676 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1983, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Poems explore the feelings and experiences of the author and portray New York City and other places which are important in his life

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