These poems pause for the spectacle: cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides. Making fun of consciousness, they describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls, and decoys that this notion of daily viewership entails. These peoms are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, in which the act of living becomes more and more like a movie we're not in.
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David Seymour. For Display Purposes Only
FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY
DAVID SEYMOUR
About This Book
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Contents
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Wild Lines
Eyewitness Testimony
Clone
Cyclops
Dialectic Concerning the Deity’s Benevolence
Several Takes
Even
Odd
Fla
Slide Show of Uig
BBC World News
Insomnia
Song for the Call of the Richardson’s Ground Squirrel Whose Call is a Song for the Cry of the Short-Eared Owlet
Repeat Offender
The Text May
Possibly About Everything and Nothing
The Photo Double
When
American Ekphrastic
We Are a Healthy Culture
City Living
Streetcar Monologue
The Shape of a Casuist
Tautology
This Object Has Been Assigned Aesthetic Value
Vertebrate
Several Occasions for Happiness
The Clones’ Brief Tenure
Ten Views from an Unreal Dwelling
Untimely Death in the Food Court
A Certainty Recurs for Gabe Foreman
Symptom Diary
With Love, Jan
Whip Pan
Corpsing This Century
Super Slo-Mo
Zero Kelvin
1. Notes
2. Acknowledgements
3. About the Author
4. Colophon
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‘Whip-pan-smart, fleet and protean, David Seymour’s poems seem to contain the speed of the age. I love their ranginess and ambition, the way they rove through a here-and-now teeming with there-and-then, their speakers’ flights and turnings through the blizzard. This is a different world, and we live in it.’
