{"product_id":"for-display-purposes-only-paperback-1","title":"For Display Purposes Only - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whip-pan-smart, fleet and protean, David Seymour's poems seem to contain the speed of the age. I love their ranginess and ambition, the way they rove through a here-and-now teeming with there-and-then, their speakers' flights and turnings through the blizzard. This is a different world, and we live in it.\" --Paul Farley\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFor Display Purposes Only\u003c\/i\u003e is fighting trim, and poem after poem is a knockout blow.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We are met at the front door of this book by an energized curiosity and a humane amusement. Worlds only notionally, minimally there become fully dimensioned, clearly edged under Seymour's attention. David Seymour is a magician.\"--Tim Lilburn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems pause for the spectacle--cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides--to describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls, and decoys that the notion of daily viewership entails. These poems are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, in which the act of living is like a movie we're not in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e's first collection, \u003ci\u003eInter Alia\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. He works in the film industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Seymour: David Seymour's \u003ci\u003eInter Alia\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. His poems have been included in three \u003ci\u003eBest Canadian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e anthologies, shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award and used as song lyrics for The Warped 45. David lives in Toronto, where he works in the film industry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47334591791353,"sku":"9781552452745","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/K099IwR9N29781552452745_86b2d4af-7e08-4a2d-8141-f97ee6735117.webp?v=1769649265","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/for-display-purposes-only-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}