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Terminal Diagrams
Garrick Davis
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Description for Terminal Diagrams
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 7. Weight in Grams: 95.
Garrick Davis’s Terminal Diagrams may have been inspired by the illustrated maps in airport lounges, or perhaps they are the blueprints of the Apocalypse, with their subjects and objects representing the bitter fruits of either some future nightmare or the present world. Regardless, their vision is so bleak and unsparing, only a few will be able to savor them. Here, the art of poetry has been mechanized just as the world has been mechanized. Whether his subject is a car accident on the freeways of Los Angeles or the Book of Revelation transmitted by television, Davis’s stanzas conjure a kind ... Read more
Garrick Davis’s Terminal Diagrams may have been inspired by the illustrated maps in airport lounges, or perhaps they are the blueprints of the Apocalypse, with their subjects and objects representing the bitter fruits of either some future nightmare or the present world. Regardless, their vision is so bleak and unsparing, only a few will be able to savor them. Here, the art of poetry has been mechanized just as the world has been mechanized. Whether his subject is a car accident on the freeways of Los Angeles or the Book of Revelation transmitted by television, Davis’s stanzas conjure a kind ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
74
Place of Publication
Ohio, United States
ISBN
9780804011310
SKU
V9780804011310
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99-15
About Garrick Davis
Garrick Davis is the founding editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the world (cprw.com). His poetry and criticism have appeared in the New Criterion, Verse, the Weekly Standard, McSweeney’s, and the New York Sun. He also edited Child of the Ocmulgee: the Selected Poems of Freda Quenneville. He is the literature specialist ... Read more
Reviews for Terminal Diagrams
“These poems are made of steel.” “Davis is brutal in his portrayal of our society's ills—all the more so because he cleverly refrains from indicting the phenomena he depicts with such clear, visceral imagery….”
Raintown Review
“I must say I dearly love this collection. It does what all good poetry—what art—must do—it presents the world in new ways ... Read more
Raintown Review
“I must say I dearly love this collection. It does what all good poetry—what art—must do—it presents the world in new ways ... Read more