Publication

2007-02-08 - University of Pittsburgh Press

Language

English

Word Count

22,000 words, Guess

Page Count

88 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100822959550
  • ISBN-139780822959557
  • Goodreads537908
  • LibraryThing3208261
  • OCLC Control Number85813698
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Description

<em>The Invention of the Kaleidoscope</em> 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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Pitt Poetry Series

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