1919025
9780826514523
Monuments certify a culture’s present by securing its past and pledge its future. They assume art’s power to maintain what’s held in common by making transient things persistent. This book examines the work of five important postmodern or contemporary poets engaged in the effort to re-imagine monuments in humbler and more provisional but still culturally confirming forms.Rotella, Guy is the author of 'Castings Monuments and Monumentality in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney', published 2004 under ISBN 9780826514523 and ISBN 0826514529.
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