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.
- ISBN10 1283110210
- ISBN13 9781283110211
- Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 25 September 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wesleyan
- Format eBook
- Pages 62
- Language English