Langbeschreibung
Believing and espousing an American tradition alive in the testimony of Anne Hutchinson, in the prose-poetry of Thoreau, and in the music of Ives, Donald Revell's new poems seek moments of harmony between language and silence. The death of the poet's father and almost concurrent birth of his son form the emotional underpinnings of this meditation on faith. "Every morning, beginning in childhood, / the music of variation sustains / the equal loneliness of every soul." These spare and elegant poems speak of a conversion in which a new city is founded in the heart of silence, and grace is a refinement of grammar.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
A Branch of the DisciplineOverthrow
Upon Diagnosis
Inquire
Societies Can Be Improved. Societies Cannot Be Good.
Homage to Mrs. Jane Lead
Elegy
Above
My Father
There are Three
To the Lord Protector
A Cold September
A New October
Extinction
Thanksgiving for a Son
Advent
A Clasp
Once Divided
Scherzo
Fewer Than Music
The Memory of New England
Hypethral
A Day of Crisis No a Quiet Day
Outbreak
No Difference I know They Are.