# Donald Revell > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Donald_Revell > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Donald_Revell.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Revell > Source revision: 1335550479 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American poet}} '''Donald Revell''' (born 1954 in [Bronx](/source/Bronx), [New York](/source/New_York_(state))) is an [American poet](/source/American_poet), essayist, [translator](/source/translation) and professor. Revell has won numerous honors and awards for his work, beginning with his first book, ''From the Abandoned Cities'', which was a [National Poetry Series](/source/National_Poetry_Series) winner. More recently, he won the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and is a two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in poetry. He has also received the Gertrude Stein Award, two Shestack Prizes, two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as from the [Ingram Merrill](/source/Ingram_Merrill_Foundation) and [Guggenheim](/source/John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation) Foundations. His most recent book is ''Drought-Adapted Vine'' ([Alice James Books](/source/Alice_James_Books), 2015). He also recently published his translation of [Arthur Rimbaud](/source/Arthur_Rimbaud)'s ''[A Season in Hell](/source/A_Season_in_Hell)'' (Omnidawn Publishing, 2007). Revell has taught at the Universities of Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. He currently lives in Las Vegas. In addition to his writing, translating, and teaching, Revell was Editor of ''[Denver Quarterly](/source/Denver_Quarterly)'' from 1988–94, and has been a poetry editor of ''[Colorado Review](/source/Colorado_Review)'' since 1996.[http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/178 Academy of American Poets > 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Announcement] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517021612/http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/178 |date=May 17, 2008 }} Revell received his B.A. in 1975 and his M.A. in 1977 from [Binghamton University](/source/Binghamton_University), and his Ph.D. from the [University at Buffalo](/source/University_at_Buffalo) in 1980. ==Honors and awards== * 2017 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame * 2008 NEA Translation Award * 2005 [https://guides.library.unr.edu/nvwhof/silver-pen-recipients Silver Pen Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717003843/http://guides.library.unr.edu/nvwhof/silver-pen-recipients |date=2018-07-17 }} * 2005 [''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize](/source/Los_Angeles_Times_Book_Prize) in Poetry finalist for ''Pennyweight Windows'' * 2005 [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) Fellowship * 2004 [Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize](/source/Lenore_Marshall_Poetry_Prize) for ''My Mojave'' * 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry * 1992 [Guggenheim Fellowship](/source/Guggenheim_Fellowship) in Poetry * 1991 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry * 1988 [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) Fellowship * 1985 [Pushcart Prize](/source/Pushcart_Prize) ==Published works== '''Poetry collections''' * ''Canandaigua'' (Alice James Books, 2024) * ''White Campion'' (Alice James Books, 2021) * ''The English Boat'' (Alice James Books, 2018) * ''Drought-Adapted Vine'' (Alice James Books, 2015) * ''Tantivy'' (Alice James Books, 2012) * ''The Bitter Withy'' (Alice James Books, 2009) * ''A Thief of Strings'' (Alice James Books, 2007) * ''Pennyweight Windows: New And Selected Poems'' (Alice James Books, 2005) * ''My Mojave'' (Alice James Books, 2003) * ''Arcady'' ([Wesleyan University Press](/source/Wesleyan_University_Press), 2002) * ''There Are Three'' (Wesleyan University Press, 1998) * ''Beautiful Shirt'' (Wesleyan University Press, 1994) * ''Erasures'' (Wesleyan University Press, 1992) * ''New Dark Ages'' (Wesleyan University Press, 1990) * ''The Gaza of Winter'' (University of Georgia Press, 1988) * ''From the Abandoned Cities'' (Harper & Row Publishers, 1983) '''Translations''' * ''Last Verses'' by [Jules Laforgue](/source/Jules_Laforgue) (Omnidawn, 2011) * ''[A Season in Hell](/source/A_Season_in_Hell)'' by [Arthur Rimbaud](/source/Arthur_Rimbaud) (Omnidawn, 2007) * ''The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire'' (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) * ''Alcools: Poems'' by [Guillaume Apollinaire](/source/Guillaume_Apollinaire) (Wesleyan University Press, 1995) '''Essay collections''' * ''The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye'' ([Graywolf Press](/source/Graywolf_Press), 2007) * ''Invisible Green: Selected Prose'' (Omnidawn, 2005) * ''Scholium'' (Poetry, May 2015) ==Reviews== In a retrospective review of Revell's work written by [Stephanie Burt](/source/Stephanie_Burt) for ''The Nation'', she comments on ''Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems'':
Revell now seeks a poetry appropriate not only to loneliness but to anger and happiness, not only to freighted symbols but to facts, not only to doubt but to faith. What's more, he seems to have found what he seeks.[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030512/burt ''The Nation'' > ''The Revell Variations'' > by Stephanie Burt > 04/24/03]
In ''[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))'' magazine, [Lev Grossman](/source/Lev_Grossman) wrote about ''Pennywight Windows'':
it takes guts to write more poems about peace, war, God and children, but Revell's are so fresh, it's as if he's the first person ever to do it. He makes you feel how painfully near grace and redemption are at all times, and yet how unattainable.Grossman, Lev (July 10, 2005). [https://web.archive.org/web/20101014225846/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1079621,00.html "7 Books Of Poetry Worth Curling Up With"]. ''[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))''.
There is a theme here and in other reviews of Revell's recent books. Stephanie Burt opens her review with a comment about how much Revell's work has changed in twenty years, noting the stylistic evolution, and the increasingly spiritual focus of Revell's work, which Grossman observes in his, and which Revell corroborates in an interview by ''Poets & Writers'': "What's next for me? I am concerned with the governance of heaven, which is mostly silence. Living in Utah and Nevada, I take my current instruction from snow and sand. They are heavenly forms-substantial and effortless. May poems be so."[http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_donald_revell ''Poets & Writers'' > ''An Interview With Poet Donald Revell'' > By Nick Twemlow > 04/05/02] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/ Alice James Books Website] * [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_199607/ai_n8751715/ ''American Poetry Review'' > ''Donald Revell: An Interview''] * [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181602 Poetry Foundation > ''Death'', by Donald Revell] * [https://omnidawnblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/video-feature-2-donald-revell-plus-new.html Video: Donald Revell Reading for Omnidawn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708055456/http://omnidawnblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/video-feature-2-donald-revell-plus-new.html |date=2011-07-08 }} * [http://www.bostonreview.net/BR23.3/revell.html ''Boston Review'' > ''Donald Revell Responds to Bloom''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013123445/http://www.bostonreview.net/BR23.3/revell.html |date=2008-10-13 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080704121601/http://www.aprweb.org/issues/nov00/revell.html ''American Poetry Review'' > Excerpt from ''Invisible Green''] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Revell, Donald}} Category:Living people Category:1954 births Category:American male poets Category:Poets from New York (state) Category:Writers from the Bronx Category:Poets from Nevada Category:Writers from the Las Vegas Valley Category:University of Utah faculty Category:University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty Category:University of Missouri faculty Category:Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty Category:American essayists Category:National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Category:American academics of English literature Category:American male essayists Category:Binghamton University alumni Category:Journalists from New York City Category:University at Buffalo alumni Category:American translators --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Donald Revell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Revell) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Revell?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.