Wobble - Softcover

Armantrout, Rae

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819579092 ISBN 13: 9780819579096

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Poems written on the shifting ground of imminent systemic collapse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout is at once a most intimate and coolly calculating poet. If anyone could produce a hybrid of Charlie Chaplin's playful "Little Tramp" and Charlize Theron's fierce "Imperator Furiosa," it would be Armantrout. Her language is unexpected yet exact, playing off the collective sense that the shifting ground of daily reality may be a warning of imminent systemic collapse. While there are glimmers here of what remains of "the natural world," the poet confesses the human failings, personal and societal, that have led to its devastation. No one's senses are more acutely attuned than Armantrout's, which makes her an exceptional observer and reporter of our faults. She leaves us wondering if the American Dream may be a nightmare from which we can't awaken. Sometimes funny, sometimes alarming, the poems in Wobble play peek-a-boo with doom.

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: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819579092
• ISBN 13: 9780819579096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160