ENGLISH

Itself

By Rae , Armantrout

Book information

Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0819574678, 978-0-8195-7467-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8884333 bytes)
Series
Wesleyan poetry
Pages
97\113
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American poetry -- 21st century. American poetry.

Description

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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