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Paisley Rekdal Invention of the Kaleidoscope, The (Paperback) Pitt Poetry Series
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- Book Title
- Invention of the Kaleidoscope
- Publication Name
- Invention of the Kaleidoscope, The
- Title
- Invention of the Kaleidoscope, The
- Format
- Perfect
- ISBN-10
- 0822959550
- EAN
- 9780822959557
- ISBN
- 9780822959557
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Year
- 2007
- Release Date
- 08/02/2007
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Series
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 5 oz
- Number of Pages
- 88 Pages
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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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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10
0822959550
ISBN-13
9780822959557
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57216250
Product Key Features
Book Title
Invention of the Kaleidoscope
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
88 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
5 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3568.E54i58 2007
Reviews
"A devastating personal reflection on love, early adulthood, political unrest, and the problems of artistic transformation. . . . dazzling." "--American Poet", "A book of striking reverie . . . Rekdal's work deeply satisfies, for it witnesses and wonders over the necessary struggles of human awareness and being." --Rain Taxi, "Stunning, heart wrenching . . . These poems look unflinchingly at disappointment--loss of love, death, abandanment of hopes--and make it beautiful." --Time Out New York, "Sir David Brewster's invention of the kaleidoscope in 1830 provides the historical frame for one of Paisley Rekdal's brilliant new long poems, while a family narrative-elegized and eroticized by turns-provides the personal site, in 'Night Scenes,' for her second. One is lit up and adazzle, one muted by shades of memory and erasure. The Invention of the Kaleidoscopefinds its greatest power in such mitigating oppositions." --David Baker, "Paisley Rekdal's gaze never wavers whether she is looking at a bowl of cherries, her Chinese grandmother's mastectomy scars, an injured dog, or a Vincent Price B-movie, and in the kaleidoscope of her images she creates a new reality-fragmented, musical, and utterly true." --Barbara Hamby, "In her dazzling long poem 'The Invention of the Kaleidoscope,' Paisley Rekdal observes: 'I suppose / it is an accident anything is beautiful.' Whether accident or skill is responsible, the beauty of this collection is humane, touching, and yet also full of glitter and evanescence-like the haunted life of the radiant speaker we follow throughout the poems." --Bin Ramke, "Dazzling. Just as a kaleidoscope refracts and changes the object viewed, Rekdal's subjects and protagonists are often unable to tell themselves from the stories they've been told. Rekdal's news poems remind us that 'every simple form could be converted, / beautified by being comgined.'" "--Publishers Weekly", "A book of striking reverie . . . Rekdal's work deeply satisfies, for it witnesses and wonders over the necessary struggles of human awareness and being." "--Rain Taxi", "Fresh, intense and ultimately irresistible. The pages of 'Kaleidoscope' are littered with car-crash moments, places and voices that will make you wince and smirk and shake your head. Good luck trying to look the other way." "--Barn Owl Review", " Stunning, heart wrenching . . . These poems look unflinchingly at disappointment--loss of love, death, abandanment of hopes--and make it beautiful." "--Time Out New York", " Sir David Brewster's invention of the kaleidoscope in 1830 provides the historical frame for one of Paisley Rekdal's brilliant new long poems, while a family narrative-elegized and eroticized by turns-provides the personal site, in 'Night Scenes, ' for her second. One is lit up and adazzle, one muted by shades of memory and erasure. "The Invention of the Kaleidoscope" finds its greatest power in such mitigating oppositions." --David Baker, "Sir David Brewster's invention of the kaleidoscope in 1830 provides the historical frame for one of Paisley Rekdal's brilliant new long poems, while a family narrative-elegized and eroticized by turns-provides the personal site, in 'Night Scenes, ' for her second. One is lit up and adazzle, one muted by shades of memory and erasure. "The Invention of the Kaleidoscope" finds its greatest power in such mitigating oppositions." --David Baker, " Dazzling. Just as a kaleidoscope refracts and changes the object viewed, Rekdal' s subjects and protagonists are often unable to tell themselves from the stories they' ve been told. Rekdal' s news poems remind us that ' every simple form could be converted, / beautified by being comgined.' " "--Publishers Weekly", "Fresh, intense and ultimately irresistible. The pages of 'Kaleidoscope' are littered with car-crash moments, places and voices that will make you wince and smirk and shake your head. Good luck trying to look the other way." --Barn Owl Review, " Paisley Rekdal's gaze never wavers whether she is looking at a bowl of cherries, her Chinese grandmother's mastectomy scars, an injured dog, or a Vincent Price B-movie, and in the kaleidoscope of her images she creates a new reality-fragmented, musical, and utterly true." --Barbara Hamby, "Dazzling. Just as a kaleidoscope refracts and changes the object viewed, Rekdal's subjects and protagonists are often unable to tell themselves from the stories they've been told. Rekdal's news poems remind us that 'every simple form could be converted, / beautified by being comgined.'" --Publishers Weekly, " In her dazzling long poem 'The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, ' Paisley Rekdal observes: 'I suppose / it is an accident anything is beautiful.' Whether accident or skill is responsible, the beauty of this collection is humane, touching, and yet also full of glitter and evanescence-like the haunted life of the radiant speaker we follow throughout the poems." --Bin Ramke, "Stunning, heart wrenching . . . These poems look unflinchingly at disappointment--loss of love, death, abandanment of hopes--and make it beautiful." "--Time Out New York", "A devastating personal reflection on love, early adulthood, political unrest, and the problems of artistic transformation. . . . dazzling." --American Poet, "In her dazzling long poem 'The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, ' Paisley Rekdal observes: 'I suppose / it is an accident anything is beautiful.' Whether accident or skill is responsible, the beauty of this collection is humane, touching, and yet also full of glitter and evanescence-like the haunted life of the radiant speaker we follow throughout the poems." --Bin Ramke
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2007-273220
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Pitt Poetry Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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