The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly

by Steve McCaffery

The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the "contemporary" in the field of poetics. In the eleven essays of The Darkness of the Present, poet and critic Steve McCaffery argues that by approaching the past and the present as unified entities, the contemporary is made historical at the same time as the historical is made...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817357335
• ISBN13: 9780817357337
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"