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...think you are capable of living without writing," said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, "do not write." He didn't live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have understood her right away. Those portraits of sideshow performers and weeping children, her matter-of-fact nudists and naked transvestites, her pictures of "them," her pictures of "us"--something of consequence is at stake here, and it's not just art. Arbus worked at the point where the voyeuristic and the sacramental converge. She lies in wait for your first misstep in her direction...
Which writer or poet do you admire most...
...perspective on writing poetry, a view that he said he developed after reading Jane Ellen Harrison’s Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. Whereas before he’d focused on the reactions of others, he says he now realizes “the poet really only has an audience of one, and that audience is the poem...
Revell’s personal triumphs, fears and doubts are represented as well, as in “My Trip,” written for his mentor, poet Robert Creely. Sitting in his motel, Revell asks, “Does anything remain of home, at home?” It is a intimate portrayal of the universal question of the traveler...
...Yorker by birth and a poet for the last 30 years, Revell is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, including Erasures in 1992 and Arcady in 2002. A recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundations, he currently lives with his wife and son in Las Vegas, commuting to Salt Lake City to teach...