Just saying
By: Rae Armantrout
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9780819572998; 9780819573001
Description: 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 state can come from anyplace. The problem of identity becomes acute. The poems in Just Saying may be imagined as chimeras, creatures that appear when old distinctions break down and elements generally kept separate combine in new ways. Here Armantrout both worries (as a dog worries a bone) and celebrates the groundless fecundity of being and of language.
Notes: Poems.