Expressway / Sina Queyras.

Main entry:

Queyras, Sina, 1963- author.

Title & Author:

Expressway / Sina Queyras.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2009]
©2009

Description:

101 pages : illustration ; 20 cm

Notes:
Poems.
Includes bibliographical references.
I. The endless path of the new -- II. This is not my beautiful poem -- III. Because every road is made with dynamite -- IV. Crash -- V. Some moments from a land before the expressway -- VI. The endless hum -- VII. Misdirections -- VIII. Rest-stop culture or Wal-mart nation -- IX. Proverbs of hell.

Summary:

"This poem resembles urban sprawl. This poem resembles the freedom to charge a fee. The fee occurs in the gaps. It is an event. It is not without precedent. It is a moment in which you pay money. It is a tribute to freedom of choice." "Reality is a parking lot in Qatar. Reality is an airstrip in Malawi." "Meanwhile the expressway encloses, the expressway round and around the perimeters like wagon trains circling the bonfire, all of them, guns pointed, Busby Berkeley in the night sky. Expressway exposes the paradox of modern mobility: the more roads and connections we build, the more separate we feel. Sina Queyras has written a bravely lyrical critique of our ethical and ecological imprint, a legacy easily blamed on corporations and commerce, but one we've allowed, through our tacit acquiescence, to overwhelm us. Every brush stroke, every bolt and nut, every form and curve in our networks of oil and rubber, every thought and its material outcome each decision can make and unmake us."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781552452165 (pbk.)
1552452166

Subject:

Express highways Poetry.
Authors, Canadian (English) 20th century.
Autoroutes Poésie.
Express highways

Form/genre:

Poems.
poetry.
Poetry
Poésie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261742
Call No.: BIB 192794
Status: Available

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