03513nam 2200961Ia 450 991082643250332120230721033530.01-282-77250-397866127725040-520-94327-910.1525/9780520943278(CKB)3390000000006997(EBL)837167(OCoLC)773564884(SSID)ssj0000443992(PQKBManifestationID)11305205(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443992(PQKBWorkID)10462337(PQKB)11623761(MiAaPQ)EBC837167(DE-B1597)520935(DE-B1597)9780520943278(Au-PeEL)EBL837167(CaPaEBR)ebr10675805(CaONFJC)MIL277250(EXLCZ)99339000000000699720080508d2009 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrVirgil and the mountain cat[electronic resource] poems /David LauBerkeley University of California Pressc20091 online resource (81 p.)New California poetryDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-25873-8 0-520-25874-6 Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --I --II --III --NotesAt 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.New California poetry.PoetryPoetry.marcgtallusion.american literature.american poetry.apathy of consumption.apathy of convention.chicago literature.chicano poetry.chinese american literature.chinese american poetry.complex.creative.destructive.engaging.entropy.evocation.films.historical events.inventive.modernist poetic texts.musicality.natural abundance.page turner.poems.poetry.postnatural poetics.social inequality.spoliation.urban poetics.works of art.Poetry.811/.6Lau David1978-1603384MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826432503321Virgil and the mountain cat3927730UNINA