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The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

by Paisley Rekdal
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

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ISBN13: 9780822959557
ISBN10: 0822959550



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“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

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"A devastating personal reflection on love, early adulthood, political unrest, and the problems of artistic transformation. . . . dazzling."

--American Poet

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"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

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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.

About the Author

Paisley Rekdal is assistant professor of English at the University of Utah. She is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, and two books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos and Six Girls Without Pants. She is the recipient of the Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Award, an NEA Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Nerve, Ploughshares, Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Prairie Schooner, and on NPR, among other places.

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David Jordan , December 31, 2015 (view all comments by David Jordan)
Rekdal is one of those writers whose verse makes you want to write poems of your own, and not just any poems, but ones that are exactly like hers. Her facility with the written word is extraordinary, her images incredibly evocative, and her ability to stir emotion is impressive. I was particularly moved by one of the shorter poems in this collection, MOTH, in which she describes a dead moth in amazingly beautiful detail. I was immediately struck with the urge to dash outside and find a dead "something" and begin writing my own pathetic imitation of this fantastic piece of verse. Read this book right away.

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ISBN:
9780822959557
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
02/08/2007
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
Series info:
Pitt Poetry (Paperback)
Language:
English
Pages:
88
Height:
.28IN
Width:
6.08IN
Thickness:
.25
LCCN:
2007273220
Series:
Pitt Poetry
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2007
Author:
Paisley Rekdal
Subject:
Single Author / American
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Subject:
Single Author / General
Subject:
American poetry

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