Book description
"When history proves useless and consensus chimerical,"
Donald Revell has written, "the poet's necessity is invention, and
this does a lot to explain our century's preference for revision over
mimesis." For Revell, The disruptions of this century have
destroyed old illusions of historical continuity: "The consolations
of history are furtive,/ then fugitive, then forgotten." Invoking
such contemporary events as the collapse of communism and the end of the
Cold War, he seeks to integrate the political with the personal in a
search for new paradigms of value and honor. DONALD REVELL was a
National Poetry Series winner in 1982 for his book of poems, From the
Abandoned Cities, and won a Pushcart Prize in 1985. His most recent
collection, New Dark Ages (1990), won the PEN Center USA West Award for
Poetry. He teaches English at the University of Denver.
