A Thief of Strings

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.

Author: Donald Revell
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 68
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.61w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9781882295616
Award: Quill Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2007 pg. 75
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2007 pg. 32

About the Author

Poet, translator, and critic Donald Revell is the author of ten previous collections of poetry, most recently Pennyweight Windows: New and Selected Poems. Winner of a 2008 NEA Translation Award, the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry, Revell has also received fellowships from the NEA and the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Utah and poetry editor of the Colorado Review.