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1 online resource (81 pages) |
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New California poetry |
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New California poetry.
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| 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 |
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Metacinematic Skirt Border of a TraumatophileParade; 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 |
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Yesterday LecturesVirgil and the Mountain Cat; Jellyfish; Notes |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
allusion |
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american literature |
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american poetry |
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apathy of consumption |
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apathy of convention |
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chicago literature |
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chicano poetry |
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chinese american literature |
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chinese american poetry |
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complex |
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creative |
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destructive |
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engaging |
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entropy |
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evocation |
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films |
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historical events |
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inventive |
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modernist poetic texts |
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musicality |
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natural abundance |
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page turner |
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poems |
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poetry |
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postnatural poetics |
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social inequality |
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spoliation |
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urban poetics |
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works of art |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lau, David, 1978-
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Poetry
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Poetry as Topic
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poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- General.
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Poetry
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008021115 |
| ISBN |
9780520943278 |
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0520943279 |
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9780520258730 |
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0520258738 |
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9780520258747 |
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0520258746 |
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1282772503 |
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9781282772502 |
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9786612772504 |
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6612772506 |
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