Description:
Donald Revell's eleventh collection courageously seeks enlightenment and the ethereal, crafting a world where environment informs action.
Review Quotes:
"It takes guts to write more poems about peace, war, God and children, but Revell's are so fresh, it's as if he's the first person ever to do it."--TIME Magazine
"Revell is a post-Romantic, his natural imagery clear and immediate, his feelings never very far from his sleeve, his tone approaching a prayerful devotion..."--Library Journal
"What I find both moving and fresh about this collection is that it handles its subject matter with a simultaneous severity and lightness...This balance keeps the work buoyant despite its deep subject matter."--CutBank
"...Revell, a talented poet and translator, has finally crossed the line from strange lyricism into full-blown ecstatic prophecy...This book topped my nominations for a Nation Book Critics Circle award nod."--Sacramento News and Review
"Donald Revell's eleventh book is a collection of the crisp, intense poems for which he is known. The poems face the metaphysical and the religious head-on while leaving the reader with a feeling of new vision and open meditation"--Poets.org
"Sincerity is risky. In an age that seems averse to that risk, these poems are welcome company."--Chicago Review
"Revell's recent collections form a steady progression toward the spiritual, and this latest offering is the most thoughtful, most moving, of them all."--Library Journal
"As a redoubt against mortality, The Bitter Withy maintains a vigilance toward the seen and an acceptance of the belated nature of understanding, a tenacity for things on the brink of vanishing..."--Pleiades