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Just Saying
Rae Armantrout
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Description for Just Saying
hardcover. Deft and deeply intelligent poems on the nature of language Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
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 poems in Just Saying may be imagined as chimeras, creatures that appear when old distinctions break down and elements generally kept separate combine in new ways. Here Armantrout both worries ... Read more
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 poems in Just Saying may be imagined as chimeras, creatures that appear when old distinctions break down and elements generally kept separate combine in new ways. Here Armantrout both worries ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
Number of Pages
124
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819572998
SKU
V9780819572998
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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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