Virgil and the Mountain Cat
Virgil and the Mountain Cat

Author: David Lau

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-03-02

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780520943278

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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.

Dark Archive
Dark Archive

Author: Laura Mullen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0520948254

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Dark archive: The purpose of a dark archive is to function as a repository for information that can be used as a failsafe during disaster recovery. Laura Mullen’s fourth collection is a sequence of beautifully interrelated poems that explores how to accurately represent the reality of change and loss. Mullen pinpoints what is at stake: the possibility of communication and connection—and the hope of intimacy. Invoking Wordsworth’s "I wandered lonely as a cloud," she pushes experiments in consciousness against their boundaries in an array of poetic forms. Poetic tropes are measured against natural phenomena as Mullen examines what "witness" might mean in the context of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the failures of capitalism to effect social justice, the murder of James Byrd in Texas, the personal loss of a mother figure, and a disintegrating love affair.

R’s Boat
R’s Boat

Author: Lisa Robertson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-04-02

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0520262409

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A collection of poems.

Sight Map
Sight Map

Author: Brian Teare

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9780520258754

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"Remarkable in its range, this book serves at once as a cross-country travelogue, a pilgrim's Gnostic progress, an improvised field guide, and a postmodern "pillowbook," recording the erotic conflation of lover and beloved, deity and doubter. With startling poetic skill, formal profligacy, and emotional daring, the author gives "a series of lessons in how to read / differently ... how to pleasure changed language."--Back cover.

Writing the Silences
Writing the Silences

Author: Richard O. Moore

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-04-02

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0520946154

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The poems in Writing the Silences represent more than 60 years of Richard O. Moore’s work as a poet. Selected from seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008, these poems reflect not only Moore’s place in literary history—he is the last of his generation of the legendary group of San Francisco Renaissance poets—but also his reemergence into today’s literary world after an important career as a filmmaker and producer in public radio and television. Writing the Silences reflects Moore’s commitment to freedom of form, his interest in language itself, and his dedication to issues of social justice and ecology.

Virgil Wander
Virgil Wander

Author: Leif Enger

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0802146686

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A man seeks to rediscover his broken Midwestern community in a novel that “brims with grace and quirky charm” by the author of Peace Like a River (Bookpage). Movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Though Virgil survives, his language and memory are altered. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together the past. He is helped by a cast of curious locals—from a stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son, to the vanished man’s enchanting wife, to a local journalist who is Virgil’s oldest friend. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a journey into the heart of America’s Upper Midwest.

Green is the Orator
Green is the Orator

Author: Sarah Gridley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0520262417

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"The poems in Sarah Gridley's new book have the sharpest of intellects and the tenderest of spirits, sonically superb and wildly engaging."--Kazim Ali, author of The Far Mosque and The Fortieth Day

Metropole
Metropole

Author: Geoffrey G. O Brien

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-03-02

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0520268873

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Geoffrey O'Brien's third collection of experimental poetry.

The Banjo Clock
The Banjo Clock

Author: Karen Garthe

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-06-25

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0520951697

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For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov cocktail. A master of radical invention, Garthe combines brio of conception with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language to new life from the inside at breakneck speed. The Banjo Clock, her second collection, cultivates a luxuriant sensibility even as it interrupts poetic continuity with cuts, ironies, sharp wit, and wild recklessness. In poems that consider poetry itself, Garthe writes about preparing the medium, the ink, "the motion of new utility." She then turns to America’s psychic maladies and the need to rehabilitate our democracy, now floundering in the glare of TV’s blue depressive light.