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allusion
american literature
american poetry
apathy of consumption
apathy of convention
Author_David Lau
Category=DCF
chicago literature
chicano poetry
chinese american literature
chinese american poetry
complex
creative
destructive
engaging
entropy
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evocation
films
historical events
inventive
modernist poetic texts
musicality
natural abundance
page turner
poems
poetry
postnatural poetics
social inequality
spoliation
urban poetics
works of art
Product details
- ISBN 9780520258747
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 02 Mar 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
