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Virgil and the Mountain Cat

Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Av David Lau

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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, postnatural 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-03-02
Mått140 x 210 x 10 mm
Vikt136 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew California Poetry
Antal sidor88
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520258747

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Acknowledgments I Prosopopeia Day to Start on the Floorboards, Rain to the South, Any View a Machine New Organic Shifts Suburbatross Immortality Going Out Man with Archiving Machine Iovis Omnia Plena Happiness Is for the Terrestre Many Jasons Absolute, The Tell Pearl The Tupperware Concerto Black Line Drawing II Oil Trees Awkwardnesses They Camped for This Day in the Villages Overlooking the Plain of the River Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film The Spy's Council of Breezes Civil War Yucca Flats Stag Metacinematic Skirt Border of a Traumatophile Parade Boom Kiss Boom Boom Kiss Restlessness on the Hummock To an Ectopic Shepherd Apotheosis of Groundlessness III Tears Open the Sky behind Every Gesture Now Now There There You Know Her Skirt Settles on a Cow Vertigo Fastener Exclusion Act Scene Heroes of Our America Domesticity Effect July Montaigne Toward Disunion's Opal Land Bridge Extra Strength Resistant Resistance Songs about the Avant-Garde Protest in Philippines Where I Shall Need No Glass Moved Only by Mechanical Device The Birth of Reality Out of Appearance Seiche Yesterday Lectures Virgil and the Mountain Cat Jellyfish Notes

"For those willing to experience poetry without requiring a rational explanation, Virgil and the Mountain Cat is filled with shock, curiosity, and delight." Believer "Lau's syntactical constructions and deconstructions surprise and deliver meaning in parts equally fresh and astringent... Colorfully dense, Virgil and the Mountain Cat is a rewarding book that demands rigorous attention as Lau constructs and deconstructs his subjects." Verse