Terminal diagrams : poems / Garrick Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Garrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Garrick Davis's Terminal Diagrams may have been inspired by the illustrated maps in airport lounges, or perhaps they are the blueprints of the Apocalypse, with their subjects and objects representing the bitter fruits of either some future nightmare or the present world. Regardless, their vision is so bleak and unsparing, only a few will be able to savor them. Here, the art of poetry has been mechanized just as the world has been mechanized. Whether his subject is a car accident on the freeways of Los Angeles or the Book of Revelation transmitted by television, Davis's stanzas conjure a kind

Contents:

Ultramodern; Tattoo; New Bohemia; Lila; At the Underground Club: Taxxi Café; Metal Machine Music; Aubade; Techno; Pastoral; Unrestricted Development; Modern Parable; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Disaster Report; Annexation of Case 40-61; The 6ixth Session; Assembly-Line Goddess; Japonica; Christmas Invocation; Drive Song; Passing over the Suburbs of San Diego; The Art of Drifting through Los Angeles; Etiwanda; On Passing the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant; Night High above the Los Angeles Basin; Christmas Shopping at Horton Plaza; West Hollywood; Rodeo Drive; Zone; Revelation

Near the Suburbs of Alamogordo, New MexicoDeus Ex Machina; www.prepare4y2k.com; While Reading the Revelation of St. John the Divine, I Turn On the Television; Terminal Diagram; Notes; About the author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780804040440

0804040443

OCLC:

884016999