I read Revell in a kind of enraptured haze, I’m so taken with the odd combination of his poetry: a lovely, consistent lyricism, a mild, very American surrealism, an entraced eye for the unfolding details of the (especially natural) world, closely tied in with a genial piety. If Geoffrey Hill is a High Church Anglican Prophetic poet, & Susan Howe an Antinomian Calvinist poet, then Revell is a Franciscan poet. And that’s a compliment.
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"birdie birdie, heaven heaven" -- I think that's Revell's own description of his work. Sounds Franciscan to me.
And the new translation of Rimbaud's Illuminations is likewise wonderful.
OK, I'm sold. Or, rather, buying. Thanks!
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