Rae Armantrout (born April
13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She
has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of
major anthologies. Armantrout currently teaches at the University of
California, San Diego, where she is Professor of Poetry and Poetics. Armantrout
was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book Versed
published by the Wesleyan University Press, which had also been nominated for
the National Book Award.[1] The book later received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for
Poetry. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her poetry, including an
award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
Dated
We
were smart to conflate
time
with space
in
metaphors
so
long ago.
As
I recall,
time
passed quickly
going
downstream
in
the gondolas.
Us
playing tourist
made
the days seem
like
bits of local color.
We
never saw
the
houses collapse.
That
was before our time
Zip
1
Blessed,
flippant
the
birds zip
and
chatter,
each
rephrasing
its
own phrase
forever.
(“The
authentic slapback,”
it
says on the label.)
“Well,
well, well,”
chimes
one out there.
2
Loopy
and clear,
my
writing
in
old journals---
now
hurried, ragged.
What’s
the rush?
Letters
missing, thoughts
astray
in
the blue air.
Listing
To
list objects
as
you come upon them
takes
a lot of faith—
but
faith in what?
*
One
red stone
amid
the gray cement cobble.
Dog
yapping in one
empty
front yard.
Light
on one leaf
amid
a shiny throng.
*
The
trick
is
to recognize a thought
you’ve
had before
and
mark it.
If
you can’t do that,
you’re
lost?
*
Union
Slough
wanders
through
brown sedge.
Until
To
present as,
identify
with
the
breathing space
between
the big
moments
where
nothing
much
happens, but
anything
still could.
*
Let
the cloud
stay
where it is—
two
eye sockets
near
the bottom,
one
closing,
one
enlarging
until
No comments :
Post a Comment
We welcome your comments related to the article and the topic being discussed. We expect the comments to be courteous, and respectful of the author and other commenters. Setu reserves the right to moderate, remove or reject comments that contain foul language, insult, hatred, personal information or indicate bad intention. The views expressed in comments reflect those of the commenter, not the official views of the Setu editorial board. рдк्рд░рдХाрд╢िрдд рд░рдЪрдиा рд╕े рд╕рдо्рдмंрдзिрдд рд╢ाрд▓ीрди рд╕рдо्рд╡ाрдж рдХा рд╕्рд╡ाрдЧрдд рд╣ै।