Rae Armantrout
1) Versed
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
double collection from one of the most brilliant poets of her generation.
2) Wobble
Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout is at once a most intimate and coolly calculating poet. If anyone could produce a hybrid of Charlie Chaplin's playful "Little Tramp" and Charlize Theron's fierce "Imperator Furiosa," it would be Armantrout. Her language is unexpected yet exact, playing off the collective sense that the shifting ground of daily reality may be a warning of imminent systemic collapse. While there are glimmers here of what remains...
4) Itself
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"Deft and audacious new poems from the Pulitzer prize-winning poet."--Back cover.
5) Just saying
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted--only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the security state can come from anyplace. The problem of identity becomes acute. The...
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