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Itself
Rae Armantrout
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Hardback. Deft and audacious new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
What do "self" and "it" have in common? In Rae Armantrout's new poems, there is no inert substance. Self and it (word and particle) are ritual and rigmarole, song-and-dance and long distance call into whatever dark matter might exist. How could a self not be selfish? Armantrout accesses the strangeness of everyday occurrence with wit, sensuality, and an eye alert to underlying trauma, as in the poem "Price Points" where a man conducts an imaginary orchestra but "gets no points for originality." In their investigations of the cosmically mundane, Armantrout's poems use an extraordinary microscopic lens - even when she's ... Read more
What do "self" and "it" have in common? In Rae Armantrout's new poems, there is no inert substance. Self and it (word and particle) are ritual and rigmarole, song-and-dance and long distance call into whatever dark matter might exist. How could a self not be selfish? Armantrout accesses the strangeness of everyday occurrence with wit, sensuality, and an eye alert to underlying trauma, as in the poem "Price Points" where a man conducts an imaginary orchestra but "gets no points for originality." In their investigations of the cosmically mundane, Armantrout's poems use an extraordinary microscopic lens - even when she's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press United States
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
335g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819574671
SKU
V9780819574671
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About Rae Armantrout
RAE ARMANTROUT is professor emerita of writing at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of thirteen previous books of poetry.
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