"Revell is one of American poetry's quiet masters, an aesthetically daring poet who, late in his career, took up religious themes and has created a kind of edgy wisdom poetry. . . The best of these poems are transcendent."
--Publishers Weekly

"Every word counts in Donald Revell. You must read him carefully-- not because he's difficult but because he's profound. But that's too inappropriate, that word; let me say sun-worthy, Sophoclean, God-drenched. Let me say grave, trust-worthy, loving, faithful, shocking, brilliant, honest. Let me say for dear life. One of America's best poets."
--Gerald Stern