Donald Revell

• 2017 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame • 2008 NEA Translation Award • 2005 Silver Pen Award • 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry finalist for Pennyweight Windows • 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship • 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for My Mojave • 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry • 1992 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry • 1991 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry • 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship • 1985 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, 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 (Omnidawn, 2011) • A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud (Omnidawn, 2007) • The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) • Alcools: Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire (Wesleyan University Press, 1995) Essay collections • ''The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye'' (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 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. In Time magazine, 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. 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." ==References==