Invention of the Kaleidoscope by Paisley Rekdal

Invention of the Kaleidoscope

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Invention of the Kaleidoscope by Paisley Rekdal

University of Pittsburgh Press

Invention of the Kaleidoscope

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
9780822959557
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Authors:
Paisley Rekdal
Published Date:
2007-02-08
Language:
English
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About Paisley Rekdal

A poet of Chinese American and Norwegian heritage born in Seattle, Washington, Paisley Rekdal earned a BA from the University of Washington, an MA from the University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies, and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her collection Animal Eye (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) won the 2013 UNT Rilke Prize, and West: A Translation (Copper Canyon Press, 2023) won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She also wrote Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Rekdal served as Poet Laureate of Utah from 2017 to 2022 and received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship in 2019. She has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Fellowship, and she is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.

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