Against the Meanwhile (3 Elegies) - Hardcover

Irwin, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819521507 ISBN 13: 9780819521507

Verlag: Wesleyan University Press, 1988

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Book by Irwin Mark

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"When Hegel spoke of poetry as 'the sensuous radiance of the idea' he might well have bee referring to Mark Irwin's extraordinary new volume of poems Against the Meanwhile. These meditations on loss serve as elegies for places, people, and memories given up to history, to passage, to faithlessness. Geological and evolutionary time loop through these poems, weaving together the historical, the personal, and the natural, providing a dazzling perspective that is unique in American poetry."-- David St. John

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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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• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0819521507
• ISBN 13: 9780819521507
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72