Virgil and the mountain cat [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / David Lau
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| Autore: |
Lau David <1978->
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| Titolo: |
Virgil and the mountain cat [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / David Lau
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (81 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Poetry |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Poetry |
| Soggetto non controllato: | allusion |
| 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I -- II -- III -- Notes |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Virgil and the mountain cat |
| ISBN: | 1-282-77250-3 |
| 9786612772504 | |
| 0-520-94327-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788802503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New California poetry.