Donald Revell – författare

Revell argues passionately for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies, it's about taking the information of the senses and extrapolating it through the imagination to a wider truth. Noticing oneself noticing. Using examples both from his own poetry and tranlsations from Blake and Thoreau to Ronald Johnson and John Ashbery, Revell takes the writer out of the workshop and back into the world of vision.

Revell''s fifteenth collection creates a boisterous, magical world built upon Ancient Greek landscapes and Shakespearian tragedies and mixes it with modern-age life. These lively poems sweep readers into journeys of reflection, passion, and imagination as it explores human emotion along with the never-ending, dark mysteries of the mind.

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