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Donald Revell's latest book of poetry, White Campion, opens with an epigraph from the Welsh poet Vernon Watkins: 'Time reigns; yet the kingdom of love is every moment, / Whose [...]

Comments on poetry. Why the tasks of poetry have never been more important or difficult than they are now; Thoughts on poetry as an art; Observations on the steady growth of readers of poetry; Growth of independent presses; Poems, including Donald Revell's "To the Destroyers of Ballots"; Mention of past winners of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

An interview with poet Donald Revell, is presented. Topics discussed include event of forgetting as a liberation of consciousness from the limits and bondage of personality; all the poems in poetry book White Campion originating in a moment from childhood; and borrowing a title of a poem from a quotation of Irish theologian Johannes Scotus Eriugena.

Presents the poem "In Company," by Donald Revell. First Line: A long silk; Last Line: It made a beautiful window in each side.

Presents the poem "Last: 1991," by Donald Revell. First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness; Last Line: No fire is terrible enough to be my daughter.

The poem "The Watteau Poem" by Donald Revell is presented. First Line: Life in heaven not alto, but the freight; Last Line: Says you. And of the two sisters, one says I.

The article presents the poem "The Rabbits," by Donald Revell. First Line: After the soul of the flood; Last Line: Leaps.

Presents the poem "Thief of Strings," by Donald Revell. First Line: No, different than that, not; Last Line: Not forgotten. Free.

The poem "IN MEMORY OF DENISE LEVERTOV" by Donald Revell is presented. First Line: A calm mind neither apparels; Last Line: We are beasts that never were, and lions die.

The poem "A HINT TO LUCRETIUS" by Donald Revell is presented. First Line: The afterlife is an austere beast, Last Line: Two loves, each a white campion.

Presents an essay which fits a more social context; Their use of houses as metaphors for poetry and for Auden's frequent use of repetition; Details.

Interviews Donald Revell, an American poet teaching at the University of Utah in Utah, Arizona, on poetry and poetics. Concept of time and poetic fragments used by poets; Post-modernism and modernism in poetry; Themes and poetic style; Language in poetry; Role and limitations of poetry; Revell's criticisms on various poets.

The article discusses some decisive experiences of its author Donald Revell. His experience, a refraction of class, originated and continues in a border region between writing and the class-fantasies of language. Sometimes complementary, sometimes violently conflicted, these fantasies subjugate my sense of myself to local histories. At times simultaneous, at times mechanically sequential, the fantasies also isolate my life from the life of the times. The article adds that the author has traversed these particular delusions alone.

The poem "IN MEMORY OF JEAN VALENTINE," by Donald Revell is presented. First Line: A three-quarter's moon is quick this New Year's morning, Last Line: Safe at home, we saw the great bear at our windows.

The poem "The Creation of the Stag" by Donald Revell is presented. First Line: I dreamed the red chapel uncompleted, tall; Last Line: The animal, the soul before mine. Love.

Presents the short story "The Impossible," by Arthur Rimbaud, translated from the French by Donald Revell.

Presents several poems. "Good Friday," by Donald Revell. First Line: The clown is hurt between two trees. Last Line: If I go with them, I will never die.; "Moab," by Donald Revell. First Line: Where the later kids grow so tall; Last Line: Against whose arrows my kids have nothing to oppose.; "Storks," by Donald Revell. First Line: Reading, I am, Last Line: Would corrupt the advocacy.

Interviews poet Donald Revell about poetry. Role of place in his life; Way place is used in his poetry; Contention between memory and perception.

Presents the short story "A China of Sentences: Jottings on Koch, Precursors, and Consequences," by Donald Revell.

Presented is the poem "Alongside Darwin," by Donald Revell. First Line: The sun is a forerunner of itself. Last Line: Whichever way I go was once an ocean.

Presents the poem "Tabard and Terrace," by Donald Revell.

Presents the poem "Perspective," by Donald Revell.

The poem "Confessio Amantis" by Donald Revell is presented. First Line: Remaining only, Last Line: Down to mountains of new soil and soft trees.