The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

<em>The Invention of the Kaleidoscope</em> 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.

Year

2007

Language

English

Series

Pitt Poetry Series

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Editions

1

Pages

77

ISBN

9780822959557

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