ENGLISH

Just saying

By Rae , Armantrout

Book information

Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0819572993, 978-0-8195-7299-8, 978-0-8195-7300-1, 0819573000
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
205 kB (210226 bytes)
Series
Wesleyan poetry
Edition
1st ed
Pages
101\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American. POETRY -- American -- General.Poetry

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 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 (as a dog worries a bone) and celebrates the groundless fecundity of being and of language

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