Go Figure (eBook)

Rae Armantrout (Autor)

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2024
161 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-0081-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The poems in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout's new book are concerned with "e;this ongoing attempt/ to catalog the world"e; in a time of escalating disasters. From the bird who "e;check-marks morning/once more//like someone who gets up/to make sure// the door is locked"e; to bat-faced orchids, raising petals like light sails as if about to take flight, these poems make keen visual and psychological observations. The title Go Figure speaks to the book's focus on the unexpected, the strange, and the seemingly incredible so that: "e;We name things/ to know where we are."e; Moving with the deliberate precision that is a hallmark of Armantrout's work, they limn and refract, questioning how we make sense of the world, and ultimately showing how our experience of reality is exquisitely enfolded in words. "e;It's true things fall apart."e; Armantrout writes. 'Still, by thinking/we heat ourselves up."e;Sample TextHYPER-VIGILANCEHilarious,the way a crab's slendereye-stalksstand straight upfrom its scuttlingcarapace the way vigilancetakes many forms?*That bird check-marks morningonce morelike someone who gets upto make surethe door is locked. *I soundlike I knowwhat I'm talking about. I sound like a comedian.

Autor

RAE ARMANTROUT is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, most recently Finalists and Conjure. Her collection Versed won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for a National Book Award. Her work has appeared in countless anthologies including Best American Poetry, In The American Tree and Language Poetries.

Inhalt

Here I Go • It • Freeze Tag • Skid • Go Figure • Child's Play • Escape Velocity • Fractal • Narrative • Forests • Enchanted Forest • Story Line • Conversations • Listing • Dots • Two Things • Fortune • Knots • Word Is • Other Minds • Meaning • Machine Learning • Machine Learning 2 • Uncanny Valleys • Timing • Organoids • Zing • Flame • Disasterville • Bushwhack • Glyphs • Debt Economy • Proof • Our Wits • Magazines • Hyper-Vigilance • Shrink Wrap • Drills • Genesis 2 • Attempts • Will • Preconditions • Seeing Reason • Reasons • The Birds • Communal • Slipstream • Reconnaissance • Sides • After • Preparedness • What to Call It • Stalling • Picture This • Rivets • Fire • Reverb • In Passing • Death • In Practice • Could • Dated • Traveling • Source Code • Forth • Go Round • Personals • Your Business • The Artemis • Be More • Beyond • Beyond2 • Smidgins • Overthink • Strategies • The Shivers • Someone Else • Central • Stranger • Perpetuity • In Time • Homey • Love Poem • The Take-Away • Never • True • Angel • Just • White Sky • The Waves • Between

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Wesleyan Poetry Series
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: poetry and humor, avant-garde poetry, contemporary poetry, social commentary in poetry, climate grief in poetry
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-0081-X / 081950081X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-0081-6 / 9780819500816