Erasures
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- Authors
- Revell, Donald
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Tags
- poetry
- ISBN
- 9780819512062
- Date
- 1992-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.26 MB
- Lang
- en
"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