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    <![CDATA[Next Life]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 &quot;next life&quot; 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--&quot;to make the world up/of provisional pairs.&quot; 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 &quot;next life&quot; and find it where we can.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Rae Armantrout, a core member of the Language writing movement, has long been known for the wit, emotion and punch of her social critique. Veil contains poems from five of Armantrout's previous books as well as a generous selection of new poems.  Her work relies tenaciously on the intelligibility of language, her careful syntax bordering on plain speech and meticulously scored lines always questioning how linguistic subjects are formed. Armantrout is interested in questions of origin, and the psychology of perception; she is interested in who is speaking and how we know what we know. Fans will welcome the chance to become reacquainted with her witty and lyric meditations on  erotic and family issues, and  new readers will be captivated by her poems' immediate availability and freshness.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Up to Speed]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 &quot;sphinx&quot; asking &quot;Does a road / run its whole length / at once? / Does a creature / curve to meet / itself?&quot; 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 &quot;make sense&quot; of our lives while acknowledging the depth of our self-deception and deception.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Pretext]]>
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    <![CDATA[Versed]]>
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    <![CDATA[Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing. The poems in the first section, Versed, play with vice and versa, the perversity of human consciousness. They flirt with error and delusion, skating on a thin ice that inevitably cracks: &quot;Metaphor forms / a crust / beneath which / the crevasse of each experience.&quot; Dark Matter, the second section, alludes to more than the unseen substance thought to make up the majority of mass in the universe. The invisible and unknowable are confronted directly as Armantrout's experience with cancer marks these poems with a new austerity, shot through with her signature wit and stark unsentimental thinking. Together, the poems of Versed part us from our assumptions about reality, revealing the gaps and fissures in our emotional and linguistic constructs, showing us ourselves where we are most exposed.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2009</published>
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    <![CDATA[Made to Seem (New American Poetry Series)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Collected Prose]]>
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    <![CDATA[Precedence]]>
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    <![CDATA[True]]>
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    <![CDATA[Necromance (New American Poetry Series)]]>
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