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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 1993
Like John Ashbery's, the avant-garde poetry of art critic Yau comprises a meditation on contemporary urban realities: "fragments suspended/ inside glistening velocities/ their clusters of sounds rippling/ toward the capital of tongues.'' In obscure notebooks, postcards, and pieces (evoked by the visionary poet Georg Trakl), Yau portrays people at once normal and abs...Log In or Sign Up to Read More