Everything Is Movies (Paperback, New)

Was it a manufactured hologram or the fog rising from a lake? In Nicholas Lea 's first collection of poetry, the question coalesces in an obvious yearning toward Surrealism and a supreme interest in aesthetics. Everything is movies wrestles with the myth-making of mass culture and high art but the collection accidentally? rolls off the bed and onto the floor, a heap of laughing limbs. Even as the middle section (Dummies Wonder) stretches its arms toward the capital-L Canadian Landscape, Lea 's dazed, schizophrenic conclusion reminds readers not to take too seriously any invitation to invent/a school in the wood somewhere/where dummies wonder rather that all the while we ve been under-the-bubble-bath-looking-/up.