| Virgil and the Mountain Cat: Poems Volume 25 Contributor(s): Lau, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520258746 ISBN-13: 9780520258747 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: 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, postnatural 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2008021115 |
| Series: New California Poetry (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.25 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, postnatural 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. |