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Zusatztext "Lau's syntactical constructions and deconstructions surprise and deliver meaning in parts equally fresh and astringent. . . . Colorfully dense! Virgil and the Mountain Cat is a rewarding book that demands rigorous attention as Lau constructs and deconstructs his subjects." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext " Virgil and the Mountain Cat ! David Lau's first book of poems! evokes the shattering of Western civilization (not its collapse! but the tense! apprehensive moment before the cracked vessel falls apart). What commanded trust now provokes a nihilistic retaliatory mischief-making poetic language! in which the only redemptive element! if there is one! is what Alain Badiou calls the 'engine' of excess in the greatest 20th century art! excess of the kind that allows for change! a revolution. Lau's high-voltage language is a measure of the passion of (and for) belief that has been lost. Lau is a remarkable young poet."-Calvin Bedient! author of Candy Necklace "It's after the end of the world! and David Lau is our last first poet of the future past. When words have nowhere left to go! they need a new Virgil to guide them sideways in time! to where they can become ferociously fractal as the cry of a mountain cat. The microtonal resistances of Lau's language both remove and remotivate meaning: what the poet 'saw was raw war.' David Lau's work enacts a great refusal that lights fuses beneath the psycho-political dome."-Andrew Joron! author of The Sound Mirror "The scary accomplishment of Virgil and the Mountain Cat is to remind a reader that poetry has the capacity to disturb! rather than calm! one's nervous system. Lau's poems are knowing and proficient and care nothing for your feelings. Punk in its spirit! sure to prove alienating to most readers over thirty! and spoken from a place deep 'inside the annotations!' this book is an unforgiving glimpse of the horizonless present."-Mark Levine! author of The Wilds Zusammenfassung A collection of poems that embody a nexus of interaction with historical events, films, modernist poetic texts, and works of art. It covers the electric linguistic experiment that 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments I Prosopopeia 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 Metacinematic Skirt Border of a Traumatophile Parade 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 Onl...
