Expressway

by Queyras, Sina

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Title Statements

Full title :Expressway / Sina Queyras.

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 andunmake us."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Coach House Books
Place of Publication:Toronto
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:101 p. ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781552452165, 1552452166
oclc:ocn937765087
LC Classification:PS8583*
Dewey Decimal:811.54

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 ofhell.