Money Shot, February 2011
Hardcover Versed, February 2009
Hardcover Next Life, August 2007
Paperback Veil, November 2001
Paperback Made To Seem, March 2000
Paperback
In her latest collection, Rae Armantrout considers the
shaping effects of language in the context of new and
frightening global realities. Attempting to imagine the
unimaginable and see the unseen, Armantrout evokes a "next
life" beyond the current, and too often degraded, one. From
the new physics to mortality, Armantrout engages with the
half-seen and the half-believed. These poems step into the
dance of consciousness and its perennial ghost partner--"to
make the world up/of provisional pairs." At a time when our
world is being progressively despoiled, Armantrout has
emerged as one of our most important and articulate authors.
These poems push against the limit of knowledge, that
event-horizon, and into the echoes and phantasms beyond,
calling us to look toward the "next life" and find it where
we can.
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