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- The Invention of the Kaleidoscope
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Strawberry
- pp. 1-2
- A Pornography
- pp. 23-24
- The Gokstadt Ship
- pp. 25-26
- Armor on Display
- pp. 27-30
- What I Did
- pp. 31-32
- Song with Dog and Cemetery
- pp. 34-38
- Letter Written in Snow
- pp. 41-42
- Post-Romantic
- pp. 44-45
- Night Scenes
- pp. 48-62
- Dear Lacuna, Dear Lard:
- pp. 63-64
- Acknowledgments
- p. 77
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822990833
Related ISBN(s)
9780822959557
MARC Record
OCLC
608375949
Pages
88
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No