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BEAUTIFUL SHIRT Also by Donald Revett Erasures (1992) New Dark Ages (1990) The Gaza of Winter (1988) From the Abandoned Cities (1983) Donald Kevell BEAUTIFUL SHIRT Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755© 1994 by Donald Revell All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book All the poems in this collection were given their original publication in journals,as follows. The author thanks the editors of each. Agni: The Secessionon Loan; Stilling; Death to Santa Foy; Tiergarten (under the title "Collateral") American Letters & Commentary. Arranged to Meet in Aix American Poetry Review: Voracity; Cloistered Boulevard: The Lame One Colorado Review. The Traveller's Garment Conjunctions: Another Day New American Writing. Why and Why Now New Letters: Plenitude New Madrid: Lyre Paris Review. In Company Pequod: Privacy; The Pillars Sycamore Review: An Instrument Also Tyuonyi: Debt; Curb Volt. Les Noces; Ce; The Children "Plenitude" also appeared in Best American Poetry 1992 (Scribners), edited by Charles Simic. The author thanks the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for a grant that was of great help in the completing of these poems. On Saturday, March 24, 1753, an antinomian woman known only as Sarah B. answered the questions of John Wesley thus: "I am not that which appears, but that which disappears. I always pray, and yet I never pray: for what can I pray for? I have all. I know no sinners but one. I know but two in the world: God is one, and the devil is the other." This page intentionally left blank ...