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Informationen zum Autor Joshua Clover is the author of The Matrix (2005) and Madonna anno domini (1997). He is Associate Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California! Davis! and contributes to the Village Voice and The New York Times . Klappentext "Fierce intelligence, fierce understanding of social issues, and fierce sense of the power of artifice. This is major work, haunted by a sense of totality always present in the formal intricacy and in the roles cities and architecture play. I think of these poems as crossing the cool, allusive intricacy of Quentin Tarantino with the abstract, intense social passion of Walter Benjamin."—Charles Altieri, author of The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After " The Totality for Kids is a stunning collection that charts the 'the modern and its endnotes,' as voiced in one Clover poem. There is no conceptual abstraction here without its color, motion, and syntax. The poems form an urban and linguistic landscape of contemporary life, in many ways, written in the shadow of Adorno who himself wrote in the shadows of the modern. In this brilliant volume, the fragmented world of a late and lost modernity has its own moving and lucid affect, its forms of aliveness. We encounter here an enormous clarity of language in the service of a poetics that brilliantly queries our historical moment in and as form."—Judith Butler, author of Precarious Life: Powers of Mourning and Violence Zusammenfassung Takes as its subject the troubled sleep of late modernity, from the grandeur and failure of megacities to the retreats and displacements of the suburbs. This book's action takes place in these gaps, "dead spaces beside the endlessly grieving stream", and political furies and erotic imaginings coalesce within a welter of unmoored allusions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Ceriserie Poem (We always send it to the wrong address) Early Style "Alas! that is the name of our town; I have been concealing it all this time" Baroque Parable Poem (i come across the paving stones) Blue's 1900 The Other Atelier Aeon Flux: June Auteur Theory Antwerp rainy all churches still haunted OMA A-Shaped Gate Rue des Blancs Manteaux In Jaufré Rudel's Song No More Boffins Chreia Letters and Sodas French Narratives Ça ira Kantine Poem (We are bored in the city) The Dark Ages En Abyme "An archive of confessions! a genealogy of confessions" "Of the city of the dark . . ." Poem (Tired of people! I wanted the mail to come) Valiant En Abyme Feral floats the form in heaven and of light Parable Lestrange Poem (So I went out into the nervous system of the air) Aporia A Boy's Own Story Return to Rue des Blancs Manteaux Whiteread Walk Their Ambiguity Whiteread Walk For the Little Soldier Late Style Year Zero What's American About American Poetry At the Atelier Teleology Acknowledgments Index ...
