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Virgil and the mountain cat : poems / David Lau.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lau, David, 1978-
- Series:
- New California poetry.
- New California poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Lau, David, 1978-.
- Lau, David.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (81 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At once uncompromising and highly inventive, David Lau's poems are imbued with a musicality that lightens the dark undertones of spoliation and entropy. Many of the poems embody a nexus of interaction with historical events, films, modernist poetic texts, and works of art-but from this allusion and evocation, a multifarious voice emerges. In these pages, the electric linguistic experiment meets a new urban, post natural poetics, one in which poetry is not just a play of signs and seemings but also a prismatic investigation of our contemporary order: "Hurry up before our factory leaves. / The first column of the Freedom Tower / traduces its ensorcellment in the facade." Here is a poetry both deeply lyrical and resistant, a poetry relentless in its invention and its stance against the apathy of convention and consumption.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I
- II
- III
- Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612772504
- 9781282772502
- 1282772503
- 9780520943278
- 0520943279
- OCLC:
- 773564884
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