Virgil and the Mountain Cat : Poems Paperback / softback
by David Lau
Part of the New California Poetry series
Paperback / softback
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:02/03/2009
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- ISBN:9780520258747
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:02/03/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520258747
