Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout’s poetry collections include Itself and Versed, which was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in many anthologies, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. She is professor emeritus at UC San Diego.
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‘Music needs silence / more than silence needs music.’ New poetry by Rae Armantrout.
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Sonnet 3
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‘Your dad told me to tell you / how good you look to him right now.’ Rae Armantrout revisits Shakespeare’s sonnet 3.
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Reception and Openings
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‘Because children suspect that objects conceal their powers and intentions, animators make an alarm clock run, screaming, in circles.’
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 2008: The Alphabet
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Rae Armantrout on why Ron Silliman's The Alphabet is the best book of 2008.
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The Emotional Life of Plants
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An exciton consists / of the escaped negative / (electron) / and the positive hole / it left behind.