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Om denne bog
Shortlisted for the 2009 Governor General''s Award for Poetry!

This poem resembles urban sprawl. This poem resembles the freedom to charge a fee. The fee occurs in the gaps. It is an event. It is not without precedent. It is a moment in which you pay money. It is a tribute to freedom of choice.

Reality is a parking lot in Qatar. Reality is an airstrip in Malawi.

Meanwhile the expressway encloses, the expressway round and around the perimeters like wagon trains circling the bonfire, all of them, guns pointed, Busby Berkeley in the night sky.

Echoing the pastoral and elegiac modes of the Romantic poets, whose reverence for nature never prevented them from addressing it with all the ideas and sensibilities their times allowed, Sina Queyras''s stunning collection explores the infrastructures and means of modern mobility. Addressing the human project not so much as something imposed on nature but as an increasingly disturbing activity within it, Expressway exposes the paradox of modern mobility: the more roads and connections we build, the more separate we feel. ''Cleanse the doors of perception,'' Blake urged, and with that in mind, Queyras has written a bravely lyrical critique of our ethical and ecological imprint, a legacy easily blamed on corporations and commerce, but one we''ve allowed, through our tacit acquiescence, to overwhelm us. Every brush stroke, every bolt and nut, every form and curve in our networks of oil and rubber, every thought and its material outcome — each decision can make or unmake us.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
104
ISBN-13:
9781552452165
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1552452166
Udg. Dato:
28 apr 2005
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
195mm
Højde:
127mm
Forlag:
Coach House Books
Oplagsdato:
28 apr 2005
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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