Poems 2009 2015. Struggle, smoke, surrealism, supercharged language, Anglo-Chinese hardcore troubadour with laconic latinidad Los Angeles flow. Poems like damaged life, still dirty. Still Dirty Poems 2009-2015 is David Laus much-anticipated second full-length collection of poems. His first collection, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, appeared on University of California Press and sold well. He received praise widely, including reviews from The Believer, Verse, and Sycamore Review.