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Money Shot by Rae Armantrout

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Also by Rae Armantrout:

Money Shot, February 2011
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Versed, February 2009
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Next Life, August 2007
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Veil, November 2001
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Made To Seem, March 2000
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Money Shot
Rae Armantrout

Wesleyan Univ Pr
February 2011
On Sale: February 8, 2011
92 pages
ISBN: 081957130X
EAN: 9780819571304
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry

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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