Pennyweight Windows

by Donald Revell

“Donald Revell’s selected poems, *Pennyweight Windows*, contains some of the most interesting American poems written in the last twenty years. Revell at his best is a writer of unusual intellectual rigor and great lyrical poignancy: his mind is tuned to adages and axioms, pre-Socratic mind-tricks and the gnomic observations of Thoreau; but he has a big, vulnerable heart that tries to live in our world among our entanglements.” —Poetry “The new poems, collected along with all the best of the old in Revell’s 2005 career-spanning volume, *Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems*…remind me of James Wright, of music by the Postal Service and Low, of the most beautiful diary in the world: Its desert-burnished gems await you now.” —*City Pages* “2005 Artists of the Year” Issue “To read this selection from Donald Revell’s 20-plus years of making poems is to witness the evolution of both an individual poet and the poetics of an entire era.” —*Boston Review* “*Pennyweight Windows* heralds a ma