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...Store] with my father, waiting to go to lunch,” he says. “My father was in conversation, and I wanted to go. Then this guy came up to me and said, ‘Do you have Kant’s ‘Prolegomena?’ It scared the hell...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Life in Books Recalled | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...Mojave is the first product of Revell’s new 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...

Author: By Hannah E. S. wright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poet Donald Revell Revels in Musical Rhythm of ‘Mojave’ Poetry | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

...explained, “It was the imagination of all these people reading the poem that made it lonely.” Revell now thinks of writing as a dialogue between himself and the poem, a process he has tried to capture in “Prolegomena,” one of the longer poems in My Mojave...

Author: By Hannah E. S. wright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poet Donald Revell Revels in Musical Rhythm of ‘Mojave’ Poetry | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

...Prolegomena,” Revell seems to imbue each poem with his individual reactions to the world. In My Mojave he writes, “I am not needed / Like wings in a storm / And God is the storm.” Growing older is becoming more aware of your insignificance, he said between readings, it is being reassured that the world will go on without...

Author: By Hannah E. S. wright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poet Donald Revell Revels in Musical Rhythm of ‘Mojave’ Poetry | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

Academics ruin sex. they analyze it, explain it, deconstruct it, and by the time they're done, you wish they had stuck to talking about Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. So when the Museum of Sex opened in Manhattan, I shouldn't have been surprised that it was heavy on the museum and light on the sex. Maybe if it were called the Museum of Erotic History, I wouldn't have been as disappointed. But when I heard about the Museum of Sex, my mind shot right past museum and straight to the sex part. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Sex, Museum-Style | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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