Wobble (Signed First Edition)

Armantrout, Rae

ISBN 10: 0819578231 / ISBN 13: 9780819578235

Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, 2018

About this Item

First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wobble (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819578231
• ISBN 13: 9780819578235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

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 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.