Poetry. Donald Revell's eighth collection, MY MOJAVE, concerns itself with beauty, with the way in which the divine pours through the eye and into the soul. Pastoral and devotional, the poems seek their gods in that place where the natural and human worlds come together, where "miserable cardinals comfort/ The broken seesaws/ And me who wants no comfort/ Only to believe." With tightly crafted, sensual lines, the poems are keenly aware of the deserts we inhabit, all the while marveling at the effortlessness of poetry and worship in a world so magnificantly capable of proliferating itself and its beauty.

Author City: LAS VEGAS, NV USA

Donald Revell is Professor of English & Director of Creative Writing programs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A THIEF OF STRINGS is his tenth poetry collection, published by Alice James. Twice winner of the PEN Center 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 granted fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Donald Revell's previous translations include A SEASON IN HELL by Arthur Rimbaud (Omnidawn 2007), which won the PEN USA Translation Award. He has also translated The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems by Guillame Apollinaire, and Alcools: Poems by Guillame Apollinaire, both published by Wesleyan University Press. His books of essays include INVISIBLE GREEN: SELECTED PROSE, published by Omnidawn. Former editor-in-chief of Denver Quarterly, he now serves as poetry editor of Colorado Review. Revell lives in the desert south of Las Vegas with his wife, poet Claudia Keelan, and their children Benjamin Brecht and Lucie Ming.

Reviews and Other Links
http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2004_03_001697.php
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2003summer/mymojave.shtml