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Virgil and the Mountain Cat : Poems.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: CA : University of California Press, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (81 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520943278
  • 9781282772502
  • 9786612772504
  • 6612772506
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3612 .V574 2009
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Contents:
Subject: 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. /
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; I; Prosopopoeia; Day to Start on the Floorboards, Rain to the South, Any View a Machine; New Organic Shifts; Suburbatross; Immortality; Going Out; Man with Archiving Machine; Iovis Omnia Plena; Happiness Is for the Terrestre; Many Jasons; Absolute, The; Tell Pearl; The Tupperware Concerto; Black Line Drawing; II; Oil Trees; Awkwardnesses; They Camped for This Day in the Villages Overlooking the Plain of the River; Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film; The Spy's Council of Breezes; Civil War; Yucca Flats; Stag.

Metacinematic Skirt Border of a TraumatophileParade; Boom Kiss Boom Boom Kiss; Restlessness on the Hummock; To an Ectopic Shepherd; Apotheosis of Groundlessness; III; Tears Open the Sky behind Every Gesture; Now Now There There You Know Her Skirt Settles on a Cow; Vertigo Fastener; Exclusion Act; Scene; Heroes of Our America; Domesticity Effect; July Montaigne; Toward Disunion's Opal; Land Bridge; Extra Strength Resistant Resistance; Songs about the Avant-Garde; Protest in Philippines; Where I Shall Need No Glass; Moved Only by Mechanical Device; The Birth of Reality Out of Appearance; Seiche.

Yesterday LecturesVirgil and the Mountain Cat; Jellyfish; Notes.

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. /

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