Erasures

by Donald Revell

Book Overview

A celebrated poet struggles with the century's events

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819512060
• ISBN13: 9780819512062
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"