Research Catalog

Title

Just saying / Rae Armantrout.

Author

Armantrout, Rae, 1947-

Publication

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

101 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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 poems 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.

Series Statement

Wesleyan Poetry Series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Wesleyan poetry

Subjects

• Poetry, American
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Note

• Poems.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Scripture -- Instead -- Old school -- Dress up -- Accounts -- Event horizon -- Cold -- Just saying -- Ghosted -- Remainder -- Suggestion -- Spent -- My taste -- Haunts -- Parting shots -- Inflection -- The look -- At least -- Holding pen -- Subdivision -- My apocalypse -- Things -- Entry -- Arrivals -- Circulating -- Production -- Being seen -- Transactions -- At -- Action poem -- The thinning -- Elements of blank -- Situation -- Midst -- Representative -- Second order -- Scale -- Custom -- And -- Treatment -- Coming out -- Watch this -- Experts -- Experimental design -- Meeting expectations -- Problem areas -- Between islands -- Half lives -- Progress -- The music teacher -- Without end -- Bardos -- Living space -- Luster -- Formal constraints -- Rounds -- Mother's day -- Thus -- Focus -- The elect -- New intelligence -- Another -- Still and all -- Real time -- Meant -- Hymn -- Stop and go.

ISBN

• 9780819572998 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0819572993 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780819573001 (eBook)
• 0819573000 (eBook)

LCCN

^^2012024671

OCLC

798093584

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library