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With 14 collections and counting, Revell (Drought-Adapted Vine) is a fluent poet, as well as a critic and translator. Almost inevitably, poets become historians of their craft; this new work reads even more than most as a scattering of love letters to the almost overpowering influences of past voices (Gower, Spenser, Shakespeare, Allen Tate, Rimbaud, Ovid, and Samuel Daniel, for starters). Revell's affection for them enriches the text but subtly impedes his...Log In or Sign Up to Read More