Itself

by Rae Armantrout

Book Overview

Deft and audacious new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

What do "self" and "it" have in common? In Rae Armantrout's new poems, there is no inert substance. Self and it (word and particle) are ritual and rigmarole, song-and-dance and long distance call into whatever dark matter might exist. How could a self not be selfish? Armantrout accesses the strangeness of everyday occurrence with wit, sensuality, and an eye alert to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819574678
• ISBN13: 9780819574671
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up