{"product_id":"the-invention-of-the-kaleidoscope-paperback","title":"The Invention of the Kaleidoscope - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaisley Rekdal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaisley Rekdal\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at the University of Utah. She is the author of a book of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee\u003c\/i\u003e, and two books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eA Crash of Rhinos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSix Girls Without Pants\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poems and essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine, Nerve, Ploughshares, Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, and on NPR, among other places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.96 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726449078579,"sku":"9780822959557","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WElpc1lxdm1Udk1vZ3pvKy9tVjA2dz09.webp?v=1763737247","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-invention-of-the-kaleidoscope-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}