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"When history proves useless and consensus chimerical," Donald Revell has written, "the poet's necessity is invention, and this does a lot to explain our century's preference for revision over mimesis." For Revell, The disruptions of this century have destroyed old illusions of historical continuity: "The consolations of history are furtive,/ then fugitive, then forgotten." Invoking such contemporary events as the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War, he seeks to integrate the political with the personal in a search for new paradigms of value and honor.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Muse
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  1. I: Marina Pacifica
  1. The Lesson of the Classics
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  1. Jeremiah
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  1. The Massacre of the Innocents
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  1. Epigone
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  1. On the Cards
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  1. Heat Lightning
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  1. 1990
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  1. The Deposed
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  1. Anniversary of Many Cities
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  1. The Next War
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  1. Benzene
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  1. II: Erasures
  1. City More Than I Suspected
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  1. The Other The Wings
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  1. Sirius
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  1. The Hotel Sander
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  1. A Type of Agnes
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  1. You See Corsica
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  1. Explicit Vita
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  1. And Nothing But
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  1. The Ringrose
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  1. Erasures
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  1. III: Apart from Solitude
  1. Mayakovsky Welcomed to America, 1925
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  1. Apart from Solitude
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  1. An Episode of the Great Awakening in New England
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  1. Of Africa
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  1. Warm Days in January
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  1. On the Cape
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