Title: The Bitter Withy
Description: “As a redoubt against mortality, <em>The Bitter Withy</em> maintains a vigilance toward the seen and an acceptance of the belated nature of understanding, a tenacity for things on the brink of vanishing…”
―<em>Pleiades</em>

“Sincerity is risky.  In an age that seems averse to that risk, these poems are welcome company.”
―<em>Chicago Review</em>

“Donald Revell’s eleventh book is a collection of the crisp, intense poems for which he is known. The poems face the metaphysical and the religious head-on while leaving the reader with a feeling of new vision and open meditation”
―<em>Poets.org</em>
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, 21st century poetry