New PDF release: The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (Pitt Poetry Series)

By Paisley Rekdal

the discovery of the Kaleidoscope is a e-book of poetic elegies that debate disasters: disasters of affection, either sexual and non secular; disasters of the physique; disasters of technological know-how, paintings and expertise; mess ups of nature, mind's eye, reminiscence and, most significantly, the disasters inherent to elegiac narratives and our formal try and memoralize the misplaced. however the ebook additionally explores the need of such narratives, in addition to the inventive chances implicit in the “failed elegy,” all whereas reading some of the ways in which self-destruction can become self-preservation.

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