The Totality for Kids
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 retreat...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkerley :
University of California Press
2006.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
New California Poetry ; v. 16. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31376678*spi |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 86 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780520939097 |
