{"product_id":"drought-adapted-vine-9781938584138","title":"Drought-Adapted Vine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Donald Revell writes with a drunken equipoise among the weedy flowers and bees of roadside museums and vacant churches. . . . Here] are poems that border the hereafter and revive the child's play of prophecy. What miraculous assistance they provide \"--Dean Young\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald Revell pushes boundaries between words and music, transcending our current notion of beauty and innocence. Personal memory, the visionary, the eccentric, and the divine intertwine between networks of stories that connect past and present through paint strokes, composition, and pastoral lyric. Pure of heart poems lie down in a vibrant field of paradox, basking gratefully in the sun of unknowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Beyond Disappointment\": \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHence and farewell valediction: \"life's journey.\"\u003cbr\u003eIt makes no sense. The children mock us with it.\u003cbr\u003eA typewriter beneath the Christmas tree\u003cbr\u003eCalls to the icecaps. Illustrated monthlies\u003cbr\u003eBurn in the wasps' burnt nest. It is\u003cbr\u003eSuch perfections make the sun to rise. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Revell \u003c\/b\u003ehas authored eleven collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eTantivy \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and \u003ci\u003eThe Bitter Withy \u003c\/i\u003e(2009). Winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Additionally, he has twice been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Former editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, he now serves as poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Revell is the director of graduate studies and professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938584138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2015 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donald Revell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671344050332,"sku":"9781938584138","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6e60d531-91f8-4e91-89db-2a1a4c3bc11c.jpg?v=1603925145","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/drought-adapted-vine-9781938584138","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}