Armantrout, Rae
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Go Figure
While a few of the poems here can feel too reductive, this is classic Armantrout in the nature of its language and the depth of its thought. Poetry fans will want.
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Wobble
With enjambment and double meanings, the best poems here use crystal-sharp images to muse on lost time and to take "the private public," as Armantrout writes so eloquently. For all attentive poetry readers.—C. Diane Scharper, Towson Univ., MD
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Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015
Armantrout, also a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, has described her work as "a Cheshire poetics, one that points in two ways and then vanishes." With pleasure, you watch her work mature in this volume.
PREMIUM
There's a tremendously satisfying consistency in Armantrout's recent work that's evident here, yet it also feels more personal. Important for all poetry collections.
Itself
There's a tremendously satisfying consistency in Armantrout's recent work that's evident here, yet it also feels more personal. Important for all poetry collections.
PREMIUM
Armantrout is sometimes accused of being inscrutable, but these terse, innocent-looking poems deliver scary insight. Highly recommended.
Just Saying
Armantrout is sometimes accused of being inscrutable, but these terse, innocent-looking poems deliver scary insight. Highly recommended.
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Money Shot
These poems will appeal to those who like language poetry, but more traditionalists may side with the question posed in the title poem, "Why don't you just say/ what you mean?"
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