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Autore: | Lau David <1978-> |
Titolo: | Virgil and the mountain cat [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / David Lau |
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.: | 9910826432503321 |
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