Just Saying

by Rae Armantrout

Book Overview

Deft and deeply intelligent poems on the nature of language

In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted--only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the security...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819572993
• ISBN13: 9780819572998
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up