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Rae Armantrout
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Up to Speed (Wesleyan Poetry) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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80 |
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2004-02-03 |
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0819566985 |
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Wesleyan |
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0.3 pounds |
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5.91 x 0.28 x 8.78 inches |
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3 Platee (USA: NJ), Nan (USA: CO), Daniel (USA: NY) |
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3 Nan (USA: CO), Jonathan S (Australia), Fred (USA: FL) |
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Product Description
Rae Armantrout's most recent collection of poems focuses on the phenomenon of time, both as lived experience at the start of the 21st century and as a stubborn mystery confronting physicists and philosophers. The poems in this book are polyphonic: they juxtapose the discourses of science and religion, Hollywood and the occasional psychotic stranger. The title poem, which appears in Best American Poetry 2002, leads off with a "sphinx" asking "Does a road / run its whole length / at once? / Does a creature / curve to meet / itself?" Armantrout's work, with its careful syntax bordering on plain speech and meticulously scored short lines, is always struggling with the problem of consciousness, its blindspots and double-binds. The poems whirl like shifting and scattered pieces of the present moment. They attempt to "make sense" of our lives while acknowledging the depth of our self-deception and deception.
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