Against the Meanwhile: 3 Elegies - Brossura

Irwin, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 081951151X ISBN 13: 9780819511515

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 1988

Riassunto

Mark Irwin's boyhood near the nuclear laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, haunts his poetry. This book of three elegies explores the nature of remembered time and space--personal, historical, geological--against the progression of time--evolution, germination, cell division, nuclear fission, the decay of memory and feeling. This, the poet says, is a kind of "fossil record" of science's impact on the modern world. Entropy (the tendency of atoms towards disorder) becomes a god, a blueprint for possibility. Disorder--frenzy, darkness, chaos--leads to evolution and evolution to order, harmony, and beauty. A star burns and sunlight falls on the world.

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L'autore:

MARK IRWIN was graduated from Case Western Reserve University (B.A. 1974, Ph. D. 1982) and the University of Iowa (M.F.A. 1980). An associate professor of literature and philosophy at the Cleveland Institute of Art, he has also taught at Case Western Reserve and the University of Akron. He received a Discovery/ The Nation award in 1984. Irwin is the author of The Halo of Desire, and the translator of A Notebook of Shadows, by Philippe Denis, and Ask the Circle to Forgive You: Selected Poems of Nichita Stanescu, 1964-1979. His home is in Cleveland.

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Book by Irwin Mark

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• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 081951151X
• ISBN 13: 9780819511515
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 72