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Dark Archive.
Title:
Dark Archive.
Author:
Mullen, Laura.
ISBN:
9780520948259
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (132 pages)
Series:
New California Poetry ; v.32

New California Poetry
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Cloud Cover -- window / candle -- No Voice -- In the Space between Words Begin -- Remediation Attempt -- I Wandered Networks like a Cloud -- The Author Is Not -- I Wandered (Phony) As -- By and By -- Little Landscape -- I Wandered Her Voice -- The Proofs Arrive -- As -- Stratocumulus -- Prose Poem -- White Box -- Original Material -- Studying Clouds (A Trick of the Light) -- Parts of Speech -- Sound Barrier -- Cloud as Lonely -- Images, Similes, Some Alliteration -- Collide and Coalesce -- Code -- The White Box of Mirror Dissolved Is Not Singular -- Passages -- Turn -- If -- Turn -- Own String -- A Pool Pools -- In You Inside -- Wrest Word Cloud -- No On Coinage -- Ex Self -- Expansion Expansion -- Wilderness Here Matter -- East Last -- Truth House Materials Publicity -- Truth End -- Polis Is Space -- Same Same -- Name Crime -- Example America -- Interpreting Turning Things -- Utter Utterly -- Troposphere -- Pass -- Cloud Seeding: From a Journal -- The Visual World behind My Head -- Virga -- Orographic -- (Stratus) Endlessness -- Cloud Money -- Message -- Daisies -- On a Clear Day -- Love (Stratus) -- Love (Stratus Opacus) -- Love (Opacus) -- Love (Scud) -- Edge of There -- Love (Altocumulus Translucidus & Altostratus Opacus) -- Desire -- (Pieces from the Broken Roof of an Abandoned Passage) -- After-Image (Louisiana Company) -- Spoke of a Blueprint -- Should Have Ended -- The Motif Modifies Space -- Even in My Dreams the Knowledge -- Ghost Mist -- Evaporation / Condensation.
Abstract:
Dark archive: The purpose of a dark archive is to function as a repository for information that can be used as a failsafe during disaster recovery. Laura Mullen's fourth collection is a sequence of beautifully interrelated poems that explores how to accurately represent the reality of change and loss. Mullen pinpoints what is at stake: the possibility of communication and connection-and the hope of intimacy. Invoking Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud," she pushes experiments in consciousness against their boundaries in an array of poetic forms. Poetic tropes are measured against natural phenomena as Mullen examines what "witness" might mean in the context of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the failures of capitalism to effect social justice, the murder of James Byrd in Texas, the personal loss of a mother figure, and a disintegrating love affair.
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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