
Virgil and the Mountain Cat : Poems.
Title:
Virgil and the Mountain Cat : Poems.
Author:
Lau, David.
ISBN:
9780520943278
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (81 pages)
Series:
New California Poetry ; v.25
New California Poetry
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I -- Prosopopoeia -- Day to Start on the Floorboards, Rain to the South, Any View a Machine -- New Organic Shifts -- Suburbatross -- Immortality -- Going Out -- Man with Archiving Machine -- Iovis Omnia Plena -- Happiness Is for the Terrestre -- Many Jasons -- Absolute, The -- Tell Pearl -- The Tupperware Concerto -- Black Line Drawing -- II -- Oil Trees -- Awkwardnesses -- They Camped for This Day in the Villages Overlooking the Plain of the River -- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film -- The Spy's Council of Breezes -- Civil War -- Yucca Flats -- Stag -- Metacinematic Skirt Border of a Traumatophile -- Parade -- Boom Kiss Boom Boom Kiss -- Restlessness on the Hummock -- To an Ectopic Shepherd -- Apotheosis of Groundlessness -- III -- Tears Open the Sky behind Every Gesture -- Now Now There There You Know Her Skirt Settles on a Cow -- Vertigo Fastener -- Exclusion Act -- Scene -- Heroes of Our America -- Domesticity Effect -- July Montaigne -- Toward Disunion's Opal -- Land Bridge -- Extra Strength Resistant Resistance -- Songs about the Avant-Garde -- Protest in Philippines -- Where I Shall Need No Glass -- Moved Only by Mechanical Device -- The Birth of Reality Out of Appearance -- Seiche -- Yesterday Lectures -- Virgil and the Mountain Cat -- Jellyfish -- Notes.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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