For Display Purposes Only Contributor(s): Seymour, David (Author), Evers-Swindell, Nico (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1536643823 ISBN-13: 9781536643824 Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: MP3 CD - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2017 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Canadian - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
Dewey: 700.1 |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
Features: Unabridged |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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." (Paul Farley) "For Display Purposes Only" is fighting trim, and poem after poem is a knockout blow." (National Post) "We are met at the front door of this book by an energized curiosity and a humane amusement. Worlds only notionally, minimally there become fully dimensioned, clearly edged under Seymour's attention. David Seymour is a magician." (Tim Lilburn) These poems pause for the spectacle - cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides - to describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls, and decoys that the notion of daily viewership entails. These poems are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, in which the act of living is like a movie we're not in. David Seymour's first collection, Inter Alia, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. He works in the film industry. |
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