Virgil and the Mountain Cate: Poems (First Edition)

David Lau

ISBN 10: 0520258738 / ISBN 13: 9780520258730

Editore: University of California Press, 2009

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BERKELEY: University of California Press (2009). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. New, issued without dust jacket. A clean, tight unread copy. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. Defect-free. "Virgil and the Mountain Cat" is David Lau's first book of poems. OFF.

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• Titolo: Virgil and the Mountain Cate: Poems (First Edition)
• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520258738
• ISBN 13: 9780520258730
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Riassunto

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 artbut 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.

Informazioni sull?autore

David Lau teaches writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Cabrillo College. His poems have appeared inBoston Review, New Orleans Review, Wildlife, and other magazines.