01091nam a2200205Ia 4500 CTU_172802 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 11.2 811 R281 Rekdal, Paisley The invention of the kaleidoscope Paisley Rekdal America United State 2007 The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the body; failures of science, art and technology; failures of nature, imagination, memory and, most importantly, the failures inherent to elegiac narratives and our formal attempt to memoralize the lost. But the book also explores the necessity of such narratives, as well as the creative possibilities implicit within the “failed elegy,” all while examining the various ways that self-destruction can turn into self-preservation. American poetry,Thơ Mỹ Lan Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ