Virgil and the mountain cat : poems / / David Lau

• Autore: Lau David <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (81 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.6
• Soggetto topico: Poetry
• 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.: 9910826432503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New California poetry.