{"product_id":"just-saying-poetry","title":"Just Saying | Paperback | Poetry by Rae Armantrout","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeft and deeply intelligent poems on the nature of language\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted--only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, the voice of the Lord and\/or the voice of the security state can come from anyplace. The problem of identity becomes acute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poetry in Just Saying may be imagined as chimeras, creatures that appear when old distinctions break down and elements generally kept separate combine in new ways. Here Armantrout both worries (as a dog worries a bone) and celebrates the groundless fecundity of being and of language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rae Armantrout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793357504554,"sku":"9780819575210","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/just-saying-1235016.jpg?v=1762149902","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/just-saying-poetry","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}