RAE ARMANTROUT Livres

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet searches for new ways to understand the world in the wake of the Great Recession

"A book of poems that includes two volumes in one: Finalists and Threat landscape. These poems respond to the threats of ecological collapse including the wildfires of 2019 and 2020 and the pandemic of 2020-2021"--

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout is at once a most intimate and coolly calculating poet. If anyone could produce a hybrid of Charlie Chaplin's playful Little Tramp and Charlize Theron's fierce Imperator Furiosa, it would be Armantrout.

Rae Armantrout, born in 1947, is a significant voice in contemporary US poetry, associated with the Language School. Her work reflects the experimental traditions of poets like Williams and Ashbery, using short stanzas and charged language to explore postmodern life. A selection of her poetry has been translated by Matthias Göritz and Uda Strätling, with a foreword by Marjorie Perloff.

CARE Dress like you care!Care like you care! 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.

A chapbook from Pulitzer Prize winner Rae Armantrout on climate changeNotice is the product of a life-long interest in natural sciences by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout.

Wiersze jednej z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych współczesnych poetek amerykańskich, uhonorowanej Nagrodą Pulitzera oraz National Book Critics Circle Award. Misternie skonstruowane aranżacje, precyzyjne poetyckie mechanizmy, które angażują szerokie spektrum pewnych siebie poglądów na temat otaczającego nas świata i poddają je przenikliwemu testowi na sens, logikę i spójność. Lektura obowiązkowa!