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...
| Основен автор: | Lau, David. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
CA :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Серия: |
New California poetry.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=547400 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Virgil and the Mountain Cat : Poems. |
| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (81 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780520943278 0520943279 9780520258730 0520258738 9780520258747 0520258746 1282772503 9781282772502 |