Queyras, Sina, 1963- author.

Expressway / Sina Queyras.

First edition.

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2009]
©2009

101 pages : illustration ; 20 cm

"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.

9781552452165 (pbk.)
1552452166

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

Poems.
poetry.
Poetry
Poésie.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 261742
Cote: BIB 192794
Statut: Disponible