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Versed Versed Versed Versed Versed (2010)

by Rae Armantrout(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0819571105 (ISBN13: 9780819571106)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Wesleyan

review 1: Armantrout, like fellow early-langpo poet Lyn Hejinian, has kind of mellowed out with age and become less formally experimental. However, while Hejinian has gotten pretty cozy in her narrative cul-de-sac, Armantrout is still working with poetry as, most importantly, a field of linguistic play. She's really found a nice balance. Obviously, to garner a Pulitzer, she's writing stuff with very popular appeal, but it's still inventive and daring. I like her more recent book, 'Money Shots,' a bit more, but 'Versed' is pretty remarkable in actually succeeding in pleasing everyone all the time.
review 2: Almost maddeningly compelling and addicting. Quiet, enigmatic and at the same time explosive and direct. The paradox of Rae Armantrout's spare poetry lies in her cleve... morer manipulation of the colloquial phrase, the overheard-from-TV non-sequitur or the absurd-when-out-of-context term of art. This collection, comprised of "Versed" and "Dark Matter", is a masterful study of the dialectically opposed -- the real and unreal, temporal and eternal, material and abstract, metaphor and object. Often referred to as the most lyrical of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, Armantrout's clever verse never strays too far from the subjectivity of the heart, while her subversion of "expectation" and "meaning" constantly leave you on uncertain ground. less

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