Still Dirty: Poems 2009-2015

"Lau s poems take place at the peripheryof consciousness; try to look directly at them, tryto explain what they are saying, and theyblink away.These are poems that exist in a fun house of connotation, poems that are simultaneously creative and destructive." DominicLuxford, The Believer


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"Lau s poems take place at the peripheryof consciousness; try to look directly at them, tryto explain what they are saying, and theyblink away.These are poems that exist in a fun house of connotation, poems that are simultaneously creative and destructive." DominicLuxford, The Believer


Born of arigorous criticism of the toxicity of the economic system, this collection ofexperimental, socially conscious poetry reflects a world in crisis. Itmobilizesscenes ofstruggle and instances ofsolidarity, from Occupy to Mexico s drug war, from Cairo to Athens.Linguistically daring, full of exigency, these poems are as damaged as life, still dirty.

an excerpt Back at the neon red debriefnobody said much.
We crossed this Burmeseriver or
The Punjab is a land withfive rivers.
I drank from a glass of beerand remembered
the Alexander Kluge VHS
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, andthe White Woman.
The wind was blowing downtrees;
at the port of Long Beach,
a Mitsubishi craneun-stacked
a glow-blue sheet of wind.
I ve been rolling aroundwith a bunch of Fleetwood Macks.
We are the crisis.
DavidLauhas been involved in the poetry, art, andactivist communities of Los Angeles and the Bay Area for the past decade.He is a graduate of the IowaWriters Workshop and editor of the journalLanaTurner. This is his secondbook afterVirgil and theMountain Cat: Poems(University of California Press, 2009).
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