Revolver - by Kevin Connolly (Paperback)

About the Book

Kevin Connolly's four previous poetry books have garnered widespread critical acclaim and awards for their cutting humor, vivid language, and lyricism. Now comes "Revolver." A daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and feverish imagination, "Revolver" features poems that are each written in a different form -- "revolving" through various styles while imbuing each with the precise control and sharp wit for which Connolly is noted. This much-anticipated follow-up to "drift" is both an ideal introduction to this master poet and a worthy successor to his earlier work.

Book Synopsis

The highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning poetry collection drift, Kevin Connolly's Revolver is a daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and explosive imagination. Each of the poems in this extraordinary collection is written in a different vocal register -- revolving through poetic voices with precise control and sharp wit. Connolly reveals himself to be one of the few poets in Canada who can pull off such a high wire act, and make it both thrilling and meaningful.

Review Quotes

...deliciously hyperbolic and sincere...the work of a poet in love with the sheer range and abundance of tools, available to anyone who practices this art...[Revolver] buzzes...

Kevin Connolly is definitely not one of the pack. Revolver, his freewheeling fourth collection, is the versatile poet's follow up to drift...The 45 poems cycle through a mix of diction and tone, from nonsense verse to restrained elegy...Connolly's work is full of sly jokes, puns and wordplay...the entire collection is an entertaining game of words, starting with the table of contents.

What astounds the reader is the virtuosity with which Connolly wields all the poetic tools at his disposal. And this artistic multiplicity is not some elaborate masquerade. Connolly isn't pretending to be 45 different kinds of poet. Here, he is 45 different kinds of poet, and each is the authentic Kevin Connolly.