The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book The Invention of the Kaleidoscope by Paisley Rekdal, University of Pittsburgh Press
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Author: Paisley Rekdal ISBN: 9780822990833
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Publication: February 25, 2007
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Language: English
Author: Paisley Rekdal
ISBN: 9780822990833
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication: February 25, 2007
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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