Rae Armantrout

double collection from one of the most brilliant poets of her generation.

"Deft and audacious new poems from the Pulitzer prize-winning poet."--Back cover.

"What will we call the last generation before the looming end times? With Finalists Rae Armantrout suggests one option. Brilliant and irascible, playful and intense, Armantrout nails the current moment's debris fields and super computers, its sizzling malaise and confusion, with an exemplary immensity of heart and a boundless capacity for humor. The poems in this book find (and create) beauty in midst of the ongoing crisis."--Amazon.com.

"Crystalline poems refract the meaning and irony of human existence; a clarifying, cagey reckoning with experience that may never add up"-- Provided by publisher.

"For John Liles, science and the natural world form a route into the workings of love, of grief, and of joy in the thrum of life. Judge Rae Armantrout calls his poems “dense, sonically gorgeous studies of various natural things and creatures, including light, bees, minerals, shellfish and crabs, insects, and the workings (and failure) of the heart.” Written under the shadow of our changing climate, Liles’s poems are tender elegies but also praise-songs...