Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems

by Donald Revell

For over 20 years, Donald Revell has used the pastoral as a tool of protest/revolution against violence and war and as a guide to peace, arguing for personal, natural and political growth in precise, delicate lyrics. Pennyweight New and Selected Poems includes a powerful new group of poems and much of the finest work from Revell’s eight previous collections. Strong political and antiwar themes make this collection highly relevant to today’s most important cultural and political debates. Poet, translator and critic

Genres: Poetry

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

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 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 and Guggenheim Foundations. His most recent book is The Bitter Withy (Alice James Books, 2009).

Revell has taught at the Universities of Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, Colorado, and Utah. He currently teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, poet Claudia Keelan, and their children. In addition to his writing, translating, and teaching, Revell was Editor of Denver Quarterly from 1988–94, and has been a poetry editor of Colorado Review since 1996.

Revell received his B.A. from Harpur College in 1975, his M.A. from SUNY Binghamton in 1977 and his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo in 1980.

Reviews

[Dylan]

Random #105,721

Dense & challenging poetry that largely did not click with me, but there were many lines, phrases, and once or twice whole poems that really hit me. Plus the writing is beautiful throughout.

[Lesley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this for the poetry discussion group... Mark's suggestion.

[Emily]

another professor i've had the privilege to study under.

[Caroline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Earlier poems didn't do it for me, but I really like the Arcady and My Mojave selections.

[Vicki · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a wonderful, poignant poet.