Conjure

by Rae Armantrout

Book Overview

Like magic, these succinct poems reveal multiple realities

Rae Armantrout has always taken pleasure in uncertainties and conundrums, the tricky nuances of language and feeling. In Conjure that pleasure is matched by dread; fascination meets fear as the poet considers the emergence of new life (twin granddaughters) into an increasingly toxic world: the Amazon smolders, children are caged or die crossing rivers and oceans, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819579971
• ISBN13: 9780819579973
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up