Just Saying (Wesleyan Poetry) - Softcover

Armantrout, Rae

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819575216 ISBN 13: 9780819575210

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

RAE ARMANTROUT is professor emerita of writing at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of thirteen previous books of poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819575216
• ISBN 13: 9780819575210
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124