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Virgil and the Mountain Cat : Poems.
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 allusio...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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CA :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Series: | New California poetry.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 fi. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (81 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780520943278 0520943279 9780520258730 0520258738 9780520258747 0520258746 1282772503 9781282772502 9786612772504 6612772506 |