Erasures. Donald Revell

Поэзия. Wesleyan Poetry Series

Название
Erasures
Автор:
Donald Revell
Серия:
Wesleyan Poetry Series
Жанр:
Поэзия
Год выпуска:
0
isbn:
9780819572158
Аннотация:
<P>"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.</P>