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For Display Purposes Only - cover

For Display Purposes Only

David Seymour

Publisher: Coach House Books

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Summary

These poems pause for the spectacle: cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides. Making fun of consciousness, they describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls and decoys that this notion of daily viewership entails. These poems are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, where the act of living becomes more and more like watching a film in which we play no role.
Available since: 04/18/2013.
Print length: 80 pages.

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