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artistic exploration of modern media
artistic mediation of culture
artistic observation of everyday media
artistic response to digital saturation
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beauty in disruption and connection
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contemporary media art
Contemporary poetry
cultural commentary through poetry
cultural poetics of the twenty-first century
digital aesthetics in contemporary poetry
digital culture poetry
digital reflection and artistic clarity
digital-age imagination
emotional resonance of technology
emotional textures of digital experience
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experimental lyricism and form
human connection in digital age
human experience in mediated worlds
intersection of art and technology
language and technology in art
lyric engagement with media
lyric responses to cultural overload
media landscapes in verse
meditation on invention and mediation
meditations on cultural flux
modern artifacts in verse
modern communication in verse
modern life through poetry
modern mythmaking through poetry
multimedia inspiration for poets
poems about digital emotion
poems about screens and streaming
poems bridging past and present
poetic dialogues with popular culture
poetic imagination in a networked world
poetic music of modernity
poetic reflections on technology
poetry about innovation and nostalgia
poetry and visual culture
poetry as cultural record
poetry inspired by pop culture
popular culture
reflections on sound and image
sensory experience in poetry
technological wonder in poetic form
technology
technology and creativity
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345110
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 154 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 2020
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Christina Pugh's fifth book of poems explores the technologies both ancient and new that inhabit our contemporary cultural moment. Mapping an uncanny journey through the clusters of media we encounter daily but seldom stop to contemplate, Pugh's focused descriptions, contrasting linguistic textures, and acute poetic music become multifarious sources of beauty, disruption, humor, and hurt. Here, Netflix and YouTube share space with eighteenth-century paintings, Italian graffiti, ballet, Kurt Cobain's recordings, and even a collection of rocks. Whether technology is a vessel for joy or grief in these poems, it is always an expression of our continuing desire to invent and to mediate. At once personal archive and cultural barometer, Stardust Media traces the moving constellations of life in the distant twenty-first century, ""a kaleidoscope /... half-filled with sky-blue glass-cut blossoming, / then labored to crystallize.
Christina Pugh is professor of English in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and consulting editor for Poetry. Her fourth book, Perception, was named one of the top poetry books of 2017 by the Chicago Review of Books, and she has been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Lucille Medwick Memorial Award for her work. Pugh's poems have appeared widely in such outlets as the Atlantic, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and Colorado Review.
