Just Saying | Paperback | Poetry by Rae Armantrout by Rae Armantrout

Just Saying

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Just Saying | Paperback | Poetry by Rae Armantrout by Rae Armantrout
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Just Saying

Wesleyan University Press

Just Saying

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Deft and deeply intelligent poems on the nature of language

In 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?

In 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.

The 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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN:
9780819575210
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
120
Authors:
Rae Armantrout
Published Date:
2014-09-09
Language:
English
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About Rae Armantrout

Born in Vallejo, California, Rae Armantrout is a founding figure of the Language poetry movement. She studied at the University of California, San Diego, where she later taught for many years. Her collection Versed (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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