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  1. Virgil and the Mountain Cat
    Poems
    Author: Lau, David
    Published: [2009]; ©2009
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    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... more

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    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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  2. Orontius and Mafalda
    On a Mystical Journey
  3. Orontius and Mafalda
    On a Mystical Journey
  4. Orontius and Mafalda
    On a Mystical Journey