Revell's fifteenth collection creates a boisterous, magical world built upon Ancient Greek landscapes and Shakespearian tragedies and mixes it with modern-age life. These lively poems sweep readers into journeys of reflection, passion, and imagination as it explores human emotion along with the never-ending, dark mysteries of the mind.
"More than any poet I know, Donald Revell makes the act of writing and the act of being alive feel identical: his poems are transparent, utterly before us, and yet infinitely receding, beckoning from beyond. His ear is impeccable, and his clear-eyed vision of our fate would be harrowing, were the gifts of language and being not so palpably dear to him. The poems of The English Boat are intimate wi
James Longenbach
"Quiet, piercing lyrics, meditative and trenchant, unadorned, confident in their ability to transport, traverse time and space, these poems in The English Boat find Revell at the height of his powers. God, Jesus, and Mary are as close as friends and neighbors. In the ever-shifting complexity of faith, Revell's voice finds calm and righteous anger here, and forgiveness, via negativa, moving us to n
Gillian Conoley
"With the exquisite rough-hewn formal music of his poetry, with his devotional pastoral hymns and sculpted metaphysical illuminations, Donald Revell has become the fiercely eloquent American equivalent of Geoffrey Hill. The English Boat is simply astonishing. There is no contemporary poet who better serves his readers as fine balm for a wounded soul."
