Virgil and the Mountain Cate: Poems (First Edition)

David Lau

ISBN 10: 0520258738 / ISBN 13: 9780520258730

Verlag: University of California Press, 2009

Beschreibung

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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LW-1676

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Virgil and the Mountain Cate: Poems (First Edition)
• Verlag: University of California Press
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0520258738
• ISBN-13: 9780520258730
• Bindung: Hardcover
• Ausgabe: 1st Edition
• Zustand: New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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