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Title:

DARK ARCHIVE

By:

Laura Mullen

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0520268865

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9780520268869

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

11 March, 2011

Series:

New California Poetry 32

Pages:

152

Description:

Includes interrelated poems that explores how to represent the reality of change and loss. This title pinpoints what is at stake: the possibility of communication and connection - and the hope of intimacy.

Synopsis:

"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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University of California Press

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