Conjure
eBook - ePub

Conjure

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Conjure

About this book

A Pulitzer prize-winning poet "offers a glimpse into her visionary world in her stunning 16th collection. . . . [D]eeply insightful." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review)
 
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 weddings make convenient targets for drone strikes. These poems explore the restless border between self and non-self and ask us to look with new eyes at what we're doing.
"In this volume, Armantrout addresses topics familiar from her earlier work: the nature of consciousness, aging, the looming ecological crisis, the vacuousness of much of what passes for public discourse." ?Simon Collings,  StrideMagazine
 
" Conjure offers a magic of its own, with sometimes sly and always unforgettable juxtapositions of the minute and the exceptional, elevated by the intellect, flair, and confidence of a poet at the top of her game." ?Mandana Chaffa,  Ploughshares
 
"Unsettling, slippery intimations move just below the surface of Rae Armantrout's enigmatic and unforgettable new collection of poems. For the record, Rae Armantrout is my favourite living poet." ?Nick Cave
 

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Information

Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780819579973
eBook ISBN
9780819579379
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Conjure
  7. Unquote
  8. Pinocchio
  9. Touched
  10. Foresight
  11. Clip Art
  12. Promotion
  13. The Job
  14. Speculative Fiction
  15. Pose
  16. Like
  17. Philosophical Investigations
  18. My Love
  19. Test
  20. Guises
  21. Distribution
  22. The Wig
  23. Wrong
  24. Natural Histories
  25. Species
  26. Notice
  27. Gainsaying
  28. Where Will You Spend Eternity
  29. Beacons
  30. Motive
  31. Grasp
  32. Hung
  33. Telling
  34. Explanation
  35. Wardrobe
  36. Concept
  37. Intercepts
  38. Mine
  39. Intervals
  40. Persistence
  41. Capture
  42. Can You See
  43. Piece
  44. Portrait
  45. Enclosures
  46. Tandem
  47. Above
  48. The New Economy
  49. Care
  50. Contingencies
  51. Probe
  52. New Developments
  53. The Runaround
  54. Ghost Story
  55. False Starts
  56. Our History
  57. The Reach
  58. Project
  59. Fossils
  60. My House
  61. Theater
  62. Parallax
  63. Cross Over
  64. With Us
  65. Flip the Script
  66. Work Songs
  67. Messaging
  68. Turn
  69. Screen Memory
  70. The Tower
  71. “A Child Is Being Beaten”
  72. Pretty Little
  73. Sever
  74. Structures
  75. Frame
  76. Alternates
  77. Our Reasons
  78. Evidence
  79. In Brief
  80. Holding Patterns
  81. True North
  82. Nonesuch
  83. Preview
  84. The Corner
  85. Twice
  86. Hidden
  87. Drift
  88. Jackpot
  89. Even
  90. Subject Rhymes
  91. One World
  92. Execution
  93. Funnel
  94. Twilight
  95. Old Tricks
  96. Made Short
  97. Versions
  98. The Hedge
  99. Closer
  100. Breath
  101. Understandings
  102. My Point
  103. Value Added
  104. The Conversation
  105. Pupil
  106. Petard
  107. Planular
  108. Costumes
  109. The Rest
  110. Now See
  111. Acknowledgments
  112. About the Author

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