They could be considered alien organisms that have taken root within us.Of course, I also tried to come to terms with my probable mortality. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing.

Buy Versed (Wesleyan Poetry) 1 by Rae Armantrout (ISBN: 9780819570918) from Amazon's Book Store. When Mallarme told us that a throw of the dice would NEVER abolish chance, this is the infinitely renewable resource towards which he was beckoning. And, at the time, I certainly wasn’t convinced I would . When I got home, I started reading about cancer and what I learned was interesting – and creepy.I learned it’s more than just a mistake that stupidly replicates itself. I've been loving this poet's writing since 1980something or other. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Indeed, sometimes it is quite clever, but other times it simply comes off as pretentious. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google I felt like I'd been invited to a friend's house expecting to come in, take off my shoes and have some tea. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. I’m not at all certain that this is what enabled me to survive. "―New York Times 10 years later, without reoccurrence, she looks back at her cancer experience and says that she is “insanely lucky to survive it”.One idea a week. Narrative doesn't always do that. In retrospect at least, I treasure the memory of that first year after surgery.The one called “Around” is in three parts. They can mask themselves from the immune system. Eleven Things To Know This the least evocative poetry I have ever read. Armantrout teaches at the University of California, San Diego, and has had a “West Coast cult following” for over 30 years, Stephen Burt wrote in the Book Review in 2007, reviewing her previous collection, “Next Life.”


Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. I received the diagnosis when I was at least a third of the way through what turned out to be the book so, though people have described it as dealing with cancer, that isn’t entirely true.However, a number of the poems I wrote prior to learning about my disease have something ominous about them.

Time went by, and, eventually, I started to be able to imagine I would have more years in my life.I am 10 years older now than I was then and have never had a recurrence. US $22.95 isbn - 978–0-8195–6879-3 This 1 Rae Armantrout’s poetry is powerful in part because it appears vulnerable. I'm reasonably intelligent and well-read and even with some effort I couldn't make heads nor tails out of most of these poems. What's inside is all so shiny & clear & even tiny that it appears perfectly do-able. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Perfection.Though the collection is dotted with neat turns of phrase, for me at least, those turns of phrase never cohered into a satisfying poem. Language poetry, the little I've read, forces me to give up on reading poetry to "get it." A spread as hard to understand as Armantrout's most confusing poetry. It's an old distinction that one notices in the best voices--the emphasis is more on creating a sense of things rather than making sense, "making sense", in this case, being that the one wants to define and contain experience as if it were a commodity.