Erasures

"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

• Author
• Donald Revell

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 58

• Publisher
• Wesleyan University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780819512062

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 1992