In this Book
- Erasures
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
summary
"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.
Table of Contents
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- I: Marina Pacifica
- On the Cards
- p. 9
- Heat Lightning
- p. 10
- The Deposed
- p. 12
- The Next War
- p. 14
- II: Erasures
- City More Than I Suspected
- pp. 19-20
- The Other The Wings
- p. 21
- The Hotel Sander
- p. 24
- A Type of Agnes
- pp. 25-26
- You See Corsica
- pp. 27-28
- Explicit Vita
- p. 29
- And Nothing But
- p. 30
- The Ringrose
- p. 31
- III: Apart from Solitude
- Apart from Solitude
- p. 36
- Warm Days in January
- pp. 39-40
- On the Cape
- pp. 41-42
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819572158
Related ISBN(s)
9780819522030
MARC Record
OCLC
728169348
Pages
58
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No