Donald Revell Livres

The collection features essays that engage in deep and expansive dialogues with various writers, showcasing the author's unique insights and reflections. Through these selected prose pieces, readers are invited to explore a range of literary voices and the connections that bind them, revealing the intricate relationships between texts and their creators. The work emphasizes the richness of literary conversation and the profound impact of shared ideas across different works.

Focusing on the interplay between memory and literary expression, the essays delve into how the concept of Paradise influences experimental writing from the late Middle Ages to contemporary times. By examining a diverse array of authors, including Dante, Beckett, Traherne, and Guest, the work presents a fresh perspective on the connections between Metaphysical, Symbolist, and Postmodern literature, suggesting a cohesive vision of Heaven that transcends time and genre.

Evocative poems about the most simple and complicated ideas.

Exploring the resilience of language and the profound depths of silence, this collection of poems captures the essence of the American experience. It delves into the interplay between nature and human emotion, reflecting on the indomitable spirit found within the wilderness. The verses resonate with themes of identity, memory, and the untamed beauty of the landscape, inviting readers to contemplate the powerful connection between words and the natural world.

Exploring the interplay between literature and personal experience, this memoir intertwines the lives of Dante and Beatrice set against the backdrop of 1968 New York and the anti-war movement. It delves into the idea that life’s allegories manifest through poetry, inviting readers to engage in the joys of close reading. The narrative invites reflection on identity and belonging, suggesting that writing serves as a means to reclaim one's narrative amidst the chaos of the era.

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. The books in the Art Of series are not strictly manuals, but serve readers and writers by illuminating aspects of the craft of writing that people think they already know but don't really know.Donald Revell argues passionately for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. "The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies," Revell writes. "Beginning in the senses, imagination senses farther, senses more." Using examples from his own poetry and translations and from Blake and Thoreau to Ronald Johnson and John Ashbery, Revell's The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye takes the writer beyond the workshop and into the world of vision.