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  1. Virgil and the Mountain Cat
    Poems
    Author: Lau, David
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  University of California Press, CA ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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 fi.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520943278; 0520943279; 9780520258730; 0520258738; 9780520258747; 0520258746; 1282772503; 9781282772502
    Series: New California poetry
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (81 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references