Rae Armantrout, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $13.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6698-0
Following her breakout Veil: New and Selected Poems
(2001), Armantrout here consolidates her place as a preeminent poet of economy—in the senses of aesthetic compression, and of tracking cash's effect on brain and culture. In 42 poems of...
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Rae Armantrout, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $22.95 (78p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6820-5
Once associated with the controversial, difficult 1970s and '80s group called Language Poets, Armantrout has more recently emerged into sustained critical acclaim: this ninth book (her second since the 2003 new and selected Veil
) should see a...
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Rae Armantrout, Author . Wesleyan $22.95 (121p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6879-3
In recent years, Armantrout's reputation has soared—she began in the '70s as an obscure, early practitioner of language poetry, and now her poems regularly appear in the New Yorker
. Her new book comprises two sequences—“V
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Rae Armantrout, Author Green Integer $9.95 (91p) ISBN 978-1-892295-39-2
The San Diego-based Armantrout is usually considered the most lyrically oriented of the language poets, eschewing the longer, process-oriented works of the San Francisco wing (now geographically scattered) of her fellow travelers. Her 1998 ...
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Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan Univ., $22.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7130-4
In her follow-up to the Pulitzer- and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Versed, Armantrout--who has always built her wily, jumpy, intricately witty and wise poems from scraps of popular and high culture, overheard speech, and found text, as
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Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan, $22.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7299-8
Armantrout’s 2010 Pulitzer (for Versed) moved her from avant-garde paragon to a much more widely—and no less deeply—admired station: this second book since then (10th overall) finds her excelling in familiar yet challenging laconic modes, alert to...
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Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan Univ, $24.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7467-1
The powers of brevity, observation, and sarcastic wit that took Armantrout (Just Saying) from 1970s avant-gardist to widely imitated—and Pulitzer Prize–winning (for 2010’s Versed)—authority are back, and as sharp as ever. The UC San Diego professor...
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Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan Univ., $28 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7655-2
For the last half century, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Armantrout (Itself) has stood as a quiet figurehead of American experimental poetry, and this formidable collection offers a look at her recent progression and her signature, language-centered...
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Rae Armantrout, Author, Ron Silliman, Foreword by Wesleyan University Press $30 (150p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6449-8
The San Diego-based Armantrout is usually considered the most lyrically oriented of the language poets, eschewing the longer, process-oriented works of the San Francisco wing (now geographically scattered) of her fellow travelers. Her 1998 ...
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Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan Univ., $24.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7823-5
Armantrout (Entanglements) probes the place of sincerity in a post-modern cultural landscape in this formally dexterous and conceptually daring collection. Taking the form of prose poems, spare lyrics, sequences, and provocative hybrids, the...
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Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan Univ., $15.95 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7997-3
Pulitzer Prize winner Armantrout (Wobble) offers a glimpse into her visionary inner world in her stunning 16th collection. Using language that is deceptively unadorned, Armantrout elevates the simple to the sublime. Her lines and stanzas are short,...
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Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan Univ., $35 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8195-8067-2
Armantrout (Conjure) returns with a lovely exercise in surprise. These sparse but searing poems leap from one mode to another, what Armantrout describes in “How to Disappear” as “swinging restlessly/ between the appearance of spontaneity/ and the...
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Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan Univ, $27 (120p) ISBN 978-0-8195-0079-3
In her precise latest, Armantrout (Finalists) addresses the limits of language during a precarious historical moment. This theme is captured decisively in the opening poem, “Here I Go”: “There’s no way to explain/ how faultlessly I want to write/...
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