"Zion"
from Donald Revell's
Pennyweight Windows:
New & Selected Poems

Donald Revell:

Poet, translator and critic Donald Revell is the author of eight previous collections of poetry – most recently My Mojave, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize – as well as two translations and a collection of essays. Two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in poetry, Revell has been awarded the Gertrude Stein Award, the Shestack Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Presently, he is a Professor of English at the University of Utah and Poetry Editor of the Colorado Review. (Photo by Francois Camoin)

Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems:

Praise for Donald Revell:

”In lines that are spare and strange, elegant and sorrowing, witty and linguistically innovative, My Mojave combines an Emersonian sweetness with postmodern practice.”
— Brenda Hillman, judges’ citation, Lenore Marshall Prize

“A rich and rewarding read, My Mojave shows Revell to be an increasingly important poet for our times.”
— The Antioch Review

“Revell is a writer of singular talent and ambition… he takes the reader to unfamiliar and strange places and, in the process, he creates some of the most beautiful poetry in our language.”
— Harvard Review

“With My Mojave, Revell demonstrates the great art of when to write and when not to, of what to read and when. He writes a spiritual poetry that feels utterly truthful, giving us a phenomenology of spirit remarkably free of institutions and mostly free of habit. My Mojave will leave both those who have long followed Revell’s work and those new to the fold eager to read what’s next.”
— Rain Taxi

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