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The Totality for Kids: Volume 16

The Totality for Kids: Volume 16

Clover, Joshua
Bedient, Calvin
Hass, Robert

Paperback

Series: New California Poetry, Book 16

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0520246004
ISBN13: 9780520246003
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 10 2006
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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.

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