Forbidden Entries

Forbidden Entries PDF Author: John Yau
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574230161
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Fifty-four new poems by John Yau, who examines ways in which language has long been used, quite often subtly, to oppress and exclude." Yau conduct us across wastes of "cities... fluttering with lost ghouls" through dawn-inkling "Chrome Snooze Lots" to "shrapnel inlaid verandahs" and "second level nocturnal trellises" where, curtained in mirage, "inhabited shadows wait"... "This, we tell ourselves, is the place where we must start".