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Dark Archive

By Laura , Mullen

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0520268865, 978-0-520-26886-9, 9780520948259, 0520948254, 9781283277518, 1283277514
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1279081 bytes)
Series
New California poetry 32
Pages
130\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American poetry -- 20th century.

Description

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.

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