There Are Three

"Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . He's associative as Ashbery, inventive as Creeley, but he is his own poet, original and solemn."—Poetry

"The listening reader experiences an echo chamber of implosive power, terse declarations of concentrated insight teased into sestina-like stanzas of recontextualized word populations. In Beautiful Shirt, Revell juxtaposes a vocabulary of moral concern against an exploratory syntax that sets meaning free . . . [His] feverish technique works at full tilt in the service of an astonishingly fecund imagination."—American Letters and Commentary

"Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . He's associative as Ashbery, inventive as Creeley, but he is his own poet, original and solemn."—Poetry

"This is a poetry of often blunt, gnomic statements, but also an abundance of thought and dazzling wordplay: labor over it, and you'll be rewarded."—Publishers Weekly

"Songs for the living, songs for the dead, shadowed by those voices echoing through the streets of that (absent) City on a Hill. The impossible, unanswerable question of grace, redemption, reprieve drives Revell's poems toward a pitch, and a grace, not often attained in our time. The urgency of their appeal lingers in the mind long after the page has been turned."—Michael Palmer