How the Songs Come Down: New and Selected Poems

by Carter Revard

This major selection of Revard's work lets you hear duets of humpbacked whales and wine-throated hummingbirds. You can walk on Skye, shoot craps in Las Vegas and see an ex-bank-robbing uncle get shot dead hijacking a shipment of bootleg whiskey. You can watch a swan become a soul, see glass fibers bring tomorrow from Japan, taste watermelons transubstantiating, and track vanilla honey to a beehive on top of L'Opera Garnier.

176 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2005

About the author

Carter Curtis Revard is an American poet, scholar, and writer. He is of European American and Osage descent, and grew up on the tribal reservation in Oklahoma. He is also known by his Osage name, Nompehwahthe, given to him by his paternal grandmother.
Her earned a PhD in English at Yale University in 1959. He first aught at Amherst College, and moved to Washington University in St. Louis in 1961, where he spend the rest of his academic career, specializing in medieval British literature and linguistics.