Arcady

by Revell, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780819564740
• ISBN10: 0819564745
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-15
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Donald Revell's new work, Arcady, draws its inspiration from Charles Ives and Henry David Thoreau to create a distinctly American poetic music. Triggered by a series of deaths in the poet's intimate circle, anchored in the deserts of the Spring Mountains of Nevada, this book is nonetheless replete with lush, still moments. Many of the poems begin as meditations on loss and then transform themselves, thanks to the poet's awareness of the spaciousness and openness of the void following grief. The attention to rhythm and the exploration of seen and unseen worlds lead the poet to find solace in the earthly rhythms of seasons' passage and seasonal rituals. Revell's sparse, experimental lines are soundings within which the music of language harnesses us to the present and its infinite resonance. Like Ives's notion of music heard through and against other music, Revell's words and images well up against each other and a profound language of images, meter and rhythm emerges.

Table of Contents

Prefatory	ix
I
Meant Never to Die	3	(1)
Hymn Completed in Tears	4	(1)
For Whom	5	(1)
Tooms 1	6	(1)
Strange Little Doors	7	(1)
What Can Stop This	8	(1)
Upon the Death of Allen Ginsberg	9	(1)
Arcady Tombeau	10	(1)
Hymns Ragged Up	11	(1)
More Than a Bud but Pale	12	(1)
Light Lily Lily Light Light Lily Light	13	(1)
Conforming to the Fashions of Eternity	14	(1)
Nature a Corner for Me	15	(1)
A Bird Sick on the Pavement	16	(3)
II
Learnedly	19	(1)
Is It Rain Is	20	(1)
Tooms 2	21	(1)
Xenophanes	22	(1)
The Ready Flower	23	(1)
Heart I Agree	24	(1)
July 4th Blue Diamond	25	(1)
Arcady (Added)	26	(1)
Tracing a Shadow While It Falls	27	(1)
The Little River Wants to Kee	28	(1)
Bending With the Sky	29	(1)
All Summer Long	30	(1)
In Buenos Aires as Large as Small Apples Hail	31	(1)
Heraclitus	32	(1)
The Stars Their Perfection	33	(1)
I See Almost	34	(1)
Brighter Than Ever Accounted	35	(1)
Empedocles	36	(3)
III
Tooms 3	39	(2)
In the Drisk	41	(1)
Charles Heyde	42	(1)
The Critchicrotches Are Going to Seed	43	(1)
Arcady Ives	44	(1)
Anaximander	45	(1)
Thales	46	(1)
Ecliptic Ins	47	(1)
In the 24 Seasons'	48	(1)
With Vines or Even with Nothing	49	(1)
Trying the Peace	50	(1)
10 November 1997	51	(1)
You Have Embarked	52	(1)
Hymnal	53	(1)
Persephone	54	(3)
IV
Plotinus	57	(1)
It Rained & Drizzled & Gleamed	58	(1)
Tooms 4	59	(2)
Elegy a Little	61	(1)
Democritus	62	(1)
Anaxagoras	63	(1)
Gleams in the Snow Lane	64	(1)
Just Having Owed	65	(1)
Loon a Wave Alive a More Living Wave	66	(1)
Broad Old Cesspools	67	(1)
A Wind and Nothing	68	(1)
Serve the Axe All Dross and No Helen	69	(1)
Thucydides	70	(1)
Virgil Watched Them	71