Itself (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Armantrout, Rae

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9780819574671: Itself (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0819574678 ISBN 13: 9780819574671
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Deft and audacious new poems from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet

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 glancing backwards from the outer reaches of space. An online reader's companion is available at http://raearmantrout.site.wesleyan.edu.

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About the Author

RAE ARMANTROUT is the author of eleven previous books of poetry, including Just Saying, Money Shot, and Versed, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego. This is her twelfth book.

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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0819574678
ISBN 13 
9780819574671
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
112
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  • 3.82 out of 5 stars
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