White Campion - by Donald Revell (Paperback)

About the Book

"White Campion attempts a libretto to the music of aphasia and forgetting. The disappearance of memory can break hearts, but may open into something wonderful, on the clean far side of memory. Poems explore the idea that identity proves to be simply flashpoints of intervals, and at the end of all, humanity hopes to find a hymn to oblivion. Revell's fourteenth collection pens an ode to fading memories and wonders how we all connect intellectually and spiritually"--

Book Synopsis

White Campion attempts a libretto to the music of aphasia and forgetting. The disappearance of memory can break hearts, but may open into something wonderful, on the clean far side of memory. Poems explore the idea that identity proves to be simply flashpoints of intervals, and at the end of all, humanity hopes to find a hymn to oblivion

Review Quotes

"For Revell, love is a large kingdom, and White Campion dazzles and aches as it commemorates the trembling balance from which the original heart of these poems beats, memory. And though we can't regain the innocence of the past, memory is a way to re-enter the Paradise of our youth. Within it, advent and farewell are ceremoniously present. We are tied together thus. These poems are ecstatic in their relentless reverence of this dear world and ever-chastened by a lingering melancholy for what gets 'wiped away.' Praised be the poetry of Donald Revell!" --Pam Rehm

About the Author

Donald Revell is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, most recently of The English Boat (2018) and Drought-Adapted Vine (2015), both from Alice James Books. Revell has also published six volumes of translations from the French, including Apollinaire's Alcools, Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, Laforgue's Last Verses, and Verlaine's Songs without Words. His critical writings have been collected as: Essay: A Critical Memoir; The Art of Attention; and Invisible Green: Selected Prose. Winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Additionally, he has twice been awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Having previously taught at the Universities of Alabama, Denver, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, and Utah, Donald Revell is currently a Professor of English at UNLV and faculty affiliate of the Black Mountain Institute.