The invention of the kaleidoscope

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...

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1. Verfasser: Paisley Rekdal
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English
Veröffentlicht: Pittsburgh, PA University of Pittsburgh Press 2007
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Zusammenfassung: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,
Beschreibung:77 p.
23 cm
ISBN:0822959550
9780822959557