Erasures. Donald Revell
Erasures
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Автор произведения: Donald Revell
Серия: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Жанр: Поэзия
Издательство: Ingram
isbn: 9780819572158
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<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>