Up to Speed

by Rae Armantrout

Book Overview

Corrosive new poems from a poet whose work challenges expectations.

Rae Armantrout's most recent collection of poems focuses on the phenomenon of time, both as lived experience at the start of the 21st century and as a stubborn mystery confronting physicists and philosophers. The poems in this book are polyphonic: they juxtapose the discourses of science and religion, Hollywood and the occasional psychotic stranger. The title poem,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819566985
• ISBN13: 9780819566980
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up