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thirdcoast's review against another edition
1.0
I'm going to try and not be flippant. In order to save you time and money, I will condense Donall Revell's book, The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye, to one sentence.
Pay attention.
For those of you who have time for more than two words, I'll expand to three sentences.
1. Pay attention.
2. Fall in love with the world.
3. Write.
That aside, Revell does spend considerable time on select poems. Those instances are worth reading, but can become tiresome as the same points are reiterated.
Pay attention.
For those of you who have time for more than two words, I'll expand to three sentences.
1. Pay attention.
2. Fall in love with the world.
3. Write.
That aside, Revell does spend considerable time on select poems. Those instances are worth reading, but can become tiresome as the same points are reiterated.
raynestorm's review against another edition
3.0
Revell's lyrical writing style nearly made this book unreadable for me, as I would get lost in the rhythm and rhyme of the words he used and completely miss what they actually meant. It's an excellent bedtime read. I will say that if you're looking to get introduced to the "form" of poetry, and how to read like a poet, this is an excellent guide. Included are some delightful snippets of works from other poets, and some of Revell's own works. A bit boring and honestly presumptuous in places, hypocritical in others, a bit hard to really get into, but linguistically quite beautiful.
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