Annal:2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
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Results of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2004 Lenore Marshall winner
- Score: 10.54
Donald Revell’s eighth collection, My Mojave, concerns itself with beauty, with the way in which the divine pours through the eye and into the soul. The poems seek their gods in that place where the natural and human worlds come together, where “miserable cardinals comfort/The broken seesaws/And me who wants no comfort/Only to believe.” With tightly crafted, sensual lines, the poems are keenly aware of the deserts we inhabit, all the while marveling at the effortlessness of poetry and worship in a world so magnificently capable of proliferating itself and…
