Money Shot, February 2011
Hardcover Versed, February 2009
Hardcover Next Life, August 2007
Paperback Veil, November 2001
Paperback Made To Seem, March 2000
Paperback
The poems in Money Shot are forensic. Just as the money shot
in porn is proof of the male orgasm, these poems explore
questions of revelation and concealment. What is seen, what
is hidden, and how do we know? Money Shot's investigation of
these questions takes on a particular urgency because it
occurs in the context of the suddenly revealed market
manipulation and subsequent "great recession" of 2008-2009.
In these poems, Rae Armantrout searches for new ways to
organize information. What can be made manifest? What
constitutes proof? Do we "know it when we see it"? Looking
at sex, botany, cosmology, and death through the dark lens
of "disaster capitalism," Armantrout finds evidence of
betrayal, grounds for rebellion, moments of possibility, and
even pleasure, in a time of sudden scarcity and relentless
greed. This stunning follow-up to Versed--winner of the
Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award,
and a finalist for the National Book Award--is a wonderfully
stringent exploration of how deeply our experience of
everyday life is embedded in capitalism.
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