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Overview

A musical desert elegy on life born from loss.

Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Poetry (2003)

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. Many of the poems begin as meditations on loss and then transform themselves, thanks to the poet's awareness of the spaciousness and openness of the void following grief. The attention to rhythm and the exploration of seen and unseen worlds lead the poet to find solace in the earthly rhythms of seasons' passage and seasonal rituals. Revell's sparse, experimental lines are soundings within which the music of language harnesses us to the present and its infinite resonance. Like Ives's notion of music heard through and against other music, Revell's words and images well up against each other and a profound language of images, meter and rhythm emerges.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780819564740
  • ISBN-10: 0819564745
  • Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
  • Publish Date: February 2002
  • Dimensions: 8.48 x 5.52 x 0.28 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.28 pounds
  • Page Count: 64

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