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paperback. The world that Revell ponders in these poems is replete with contrarieties, as he searches for the true nature of the self through language unfettered by narrative constraints and conventional conceptual identities. Series: Wesleyan Poetry. Num Pages: 67 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 95. Clean copy
The world that Donald Revell ponders in these poems replete with contrarieties. The same verbal playfulness and prophetic lyricism that made Revell a 1992 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry and a winner of National Poetry Series, Pushcart, and PEN Center USA West awards are in full force in Beautiful Shirt. Here he traverses the rocky terrain of innocence, memory, disillusion, and salvation in a voice at once haunted and elliptical: "This is the world as I have known it./ It has a soft outline and is easily victimized." Juxtaposed within a trio of long, introspective poems are shorter lyrics that ... Read more
The world that Donald Revell ponders in these poems replete with contrarieties. The same verbal playfulness and prophetic lyricism that made Revell a 1992 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry and a winner of National Poetry Series, Pushcart, and PEN Center USA West awards are in full force in Beautiful Shirt. Here he traverses the rocky terrain of innocence, memory, disillusion, and salvation in a voice at once haunted and elliptical: "This is the world as I have known it./ It has a soft outline and is easily victimized." Juxtaposed within a trio of long, introspective poems are shorter lyrics that ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Series
Wesleyan Poetry
Number of Pages
67
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819512192
SKU
KEX0224586
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99-1
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