Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 88 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 135 g
Reihe: New California Poetry
Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 88 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 135 g
Reihe: New California Poetry
ISBN: 978-0-520-24600-3
Verlag: University of California Press
The Totality for Kids is the second collection of poems by Joshua Clover, whose debut, Madonna anno domini, won the Walt Whitman award from the Academy of American Poets. This volume 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. The power of crowds and architecture commingles with the alienation and idleness of the observer, caught between “the brutal red dream/Of the collective” and “the parade/Of the ideal citizen.” The book’s action takes place in these gaps, “dead spaces beside the endlessly grieving stream.” The frozen tableau of the spectacle meets its double in the sense that something is always about to happen. Political furies and erotic imaginings coalesce and escape within a welter of unmoored allusions, encounters, citations, and histories, the dreams possible within the modern’s excess of signification—as if to return revolutionary possibility to the regime of information by singing it its own song.
Weitere Infos & Material
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
