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 childs play of prophecy. What miraculous assistance they provide!—Dean YoungDonald 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.From Beyond DisappointmentHence and farewell valediction lifes journey.It makes no sense. The children mock us with it.
