Virgil and the Mountain Cat: Poems Volume 25

By David Lau

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258746
• ISBN13: 9780520258747
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"