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A Striking Conversation with Donald Revell — Arte Realizzata

Donald Revellis the authorof fifteen collections of poetry, mostrecently ofThe English Boat(2018)andDrought-Adapted Vine(2015),both from Alice James Books. Revell has also published six volumes oftranslations from the French, including Apollinaire’sAlcools, Rimbaud’sASeason in Hell, Laforgue’sLast Verses,and Verlaine’sSongs without Words.His critical writings have been collected as:Essay: A Critical Memoir;The Art of Attention; andInvisibleGreen: Selected Prose. Donald Revellis currently a Professor of Englishat UNLV and a faculty affiliate of theBlack Mountain Institute.I had the pleasure and honor of asking Donald about any advice he has gotten that has stayed with him, who some poets are still living that he greatly admires, his selection process for his current book, and so much more.UZOMAH: How do you hope your readers will receive and interpret your current book?DONALD: I hope that readers will read the poems as a call—a call to consider the deepest meanings and motives and conse…