Against the Meanwhile: 3 Elegies

by Mark Irwin

Three elegies exploring the nature of remembered time and space.

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081951151X
• ISBN13: 9780819511515
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up