TY - BOOK ID - 77878819 TI - The totality for kids PY - 2006 SN - 1282771973 9786612771972 0520939093 9780520939097 0520245997 0520246004 9780520245990 9781282771970 6612771976 9780520246003 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - American poetry. KW - American literature KW - 20th century. KW - alienation. KW - allusions. KW - america. KW - american literature. KW - american poetry. KW - american poets. KW - architecture. KW - art and literature. KW - aspiring poets. KW - award winner. KW - contemporary poetry. KW - contemporary poets. KW - english majors. KW - eroticism. KW - lit students. KW - literary critics. KW - literary studies. KW - modern histories. KW - modern perspective. KW - modern poets. KW - modernity. KW - observations. KW - poems. KW - poetry collection. KW - poetry. KW - political poems. KW - sleep issues. KW - suburban landscape. KW - suburbs. KW - troubled sleep. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77878819 AB - The Totality for Kids is the second collection of poems by Joshua Clover, whose debut, Madonna anno domini, won the Walt Whitman award from the Academy of American Poets. This volume takes as its subject the troubled sleep of late modernity, from the grandeur and failure of megacities to the retreats and displacements of the suburbs. The power of crowds and architecture commingles with the alienation and idleness of the observer, caught between "the brutal red dream/Of the collective" and "the parade/Of the ideal citizen." The book's action takes place in these gaps, "dead spaces beside the endlessly grieving stream." The frozen tableau of the spectacle meets its double in the sense that something is always about to happen. Political furies and erotic imaginings coalesce and escape within a welter of unmoored allusions, encounters, citations, and histories, the dreams possible within the modern's excess of signification-as if to return revolutionary possibility to the regime of information by singing it its own song. ER -