Dark Archive [[electronic resource] /] / Laura Mullen

• Autore: Mullen Laura <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (148 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetto topico: American poetry; American literature
• Soggetto non controllato: capitalism; communication; connection; dark archive; disaster; distance; fiction; grief; hurricane katrina; intimacy; james byrd; literature; loss; love; lynching; marxism; murder; natural disaster; poems; poetic form; poetry collection; poetry; poverty; race; romance; sexuality; social issues; social justice; structural poverty; trauma; witness
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- System -- Acknowledgments -- Cloud Cover -- Turn -- Troposphere -- Evaporation / Condensation
• Sommario/riassunto: Dark archive: The purpose of a dark archive is to function as a repository for information that can be used as a failsafe during disaster recovery.Laura Mullen's fourth collection is a sequence of beautifully interrelated poems that explores how to accurately represent the reality of change and loss. Mullen pinpoints what is at stake: the possibility of communication and connection-and the hope of intimacy. Invoking Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud," she pushes experiments in consciousness against their boundaries in an array of poetic forms. Poetic tropes are measured against natural phenomena as Mullen examines what "witness" might mean in the context of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the failures of capitalism to effect social justice, the murder of James Byrd in Texas, the personal loss of a mother figure, and a disintegrating love affair.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dark Archive
• ISBN: 1-283-27751-4; 9786613277510; 0-520-94825-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820995903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New California poetry ; ; 32.