Reviews
"Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . He's associative as Ashbery, inventive as Creeley, but he is his own poet, original and solemn." - Poetry, This is a poetry of often blunt, gnomic statements, but also an abundance of thought and dazzling wordplay: labor over it, and you'll be rewarded., "Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . He's associative as Ashbery, inventive as Creeley, but he is his own poet, original and solemn."-- Poetry "The listening reader experiences an echo chamber of implosive power, terse declarations of concentrated insight teased into sestina-like stanzas of recontextualized word populations. In Beautiful Shirt, Revell juxtaposes a vocabulary of moral concern against an exploratory syntax that sets meaning free . . . [His] feverish technique works at full tilt in the service of an astonishingly fecund imagination."-- American Letters and Commentary "Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . He's associative as Ashbery, inventive as Creeley, but he is his own poet, original and solemn."-- Poetry "This is a poetry of often blunt, gnomic statements, but also an abundance of thought and dazzling wordplay: labor over it, and you'll be rewarded."-- Publishers Weekly, "This is a poetry of often blunt, gnomic statements, but also an abundance of thought and dazzling wordplay: labor over it, and you'll be rewarded." - Publishers Weekly, Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . He's associative as Ashbery, inventive as Creeley, but he is his own poet, original and solemn., "Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . He's associative as Ashbery, inventive as Creeley, but he is his own poet, original and solemn." -- Poetry "This is a poetry of often blunt, gnomic statements, but also an abundance of thought and dazzling wordplay: labor over it, and you'll be rewarded." -- Publishers Weekly "The listening reader experiences an echo chamber of implosive power, terse declarations of concentrated insight teased into sestina-like stanzas of recontextualized word populations. In Beautiful Shirt, Revell juxtaposes a vocabulary of moral concern against an exploratory syntax that sets meaning free . . . [His] feverish technique works at full tilt in the service of an astonishingly fecund imagination."-- American Letters and Commentary, "The listening reader experiences an echo chamber of implosive power, terse declarations of concentrated insight teased into sestina-like stanzas of recontextualized word populations. In Beautiful Shirt, Revell juxtaposes a vocabulary of moral concern against an exploratory syntax that sets meaning free . . . [His] feverish technique works at full tilt in the service of an astonishingly fecund imagination."- American Letters and Commentary, "Songs for the living, songs for the dead, shadowed by those voices echoing through the streets of that (absent) City on a Hill. The impossible, unanswerable question of grace, redemption, reprieve drives Revell's poems toward a pitch, and a grace, not often attained in our time. The urgency of their appeal lingers in the mind long after the page has been turned."--Michael Palmer, "Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . He's associative as Ashbery, inventive as Creeley, but he is his own poet, original and solemn."-- Poetry "Songs for the living, songs for the dead, shadowed by those voices echoing through the streets of that (absent) City on a Hill. The impossible, unanswerable question of grace, redemption, reprieve drives Revell's poems toward a pitch, and a grace, not often attained in our time. The urgency of their appeal lingers in the mind long after the page has been turned."--Michael Palmer "The listening reader experiences an echo chamber of implosive power, terse declarations of concentrated insight teased into sestina-like stanzas of recontextualized word populations. In Beautiful Shirt, Revell juxtaposes a vocabulary of moral concern against an exploratory syntax that sets meaning free . . . [His] feverish technique works at full tilt in the service of an astonishingly fecund imagination."-- American Letters and Commentary "Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . He's associative as Ashbery, inventive as Creeley, but he is his own poet, original and solemn."-- Poetry "This is a poetry of often blunt, gnomic statements, but also an abundance of thought and dazzling wordplay: labor over it, and you'll be rewarded."-- Publishers Weekly, The listening reader experiences an echo chamber of implosive power, terse declarations of concentrated insight teased into sestina-like stanzas of recontextualized word populations. In Beautiful Shirt, Revell juxtaposes a vocabulary of moral concern against an exploratory syntax that sets meaning free . . . [His] feverish technique works at full tilt in the service of an astonishingly fecund imagination.
