Author: Michael Collier
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: wesleyan, poetry, series, american, decades, tradition, four
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1993-06-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 081951229X
ISBN-13: 9780819512291
A compelling anthology of the best poetry of a unique press.
Author: D. A. Powell
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, tea
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1998-02-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 081956334X
ISBN-13: 9780819563347
Visually arresting, Tea is an experimental poem-cycle with traditional formal techniques built into its wild surface.
Author: Rae Armantrout
Publisher: Wesleya
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, life
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2007-08-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 081956821X
ISBN-13: 9780819568212
In her latest collection, Rae Armantrout considers the shaping effects of language in the context of new and frightening global realities. Attempting to imagine the unimaginable and see the unseen, Armantrout evokes a "next life" beyond the current, and too often degraded, one. From the new physics to mortality, Armantrout engages with the half-seen and the half-believed. These poems step into the dance of consciousness and its perennial ghost partner--"to make the world up/of provisional pairs." At a time when our world is being progressively despoiled, Armantrout has emerged as one of our mo
Author: D. A. Powell
Publisher: Wesleya
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, lunch
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 2000-10-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0819564273
ISBN-13: 9780819564276
A direct and moving account of a young man’s life in a time of plague.
Author: Rae Armantrout
Publisher: Wesleya
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, speed
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2004-02-03
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0819566985
ISBN-13: 9780819566980
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, which appears in Best American Poetry 2002, leads off with a "sphinx" asking "Does a road / run its whole length / at once? / Does a creature / curve to meet / itself?" Armantrout’s work, with its careful syntax borderin
Author: Rae Armantrout
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, versed
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0819568791
ISBN-13: 9780819568793
Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. "Versed" brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing. The poems in the first section, ’Versed’, play with vice and versa, the perversity of human consciousness. They flirt with error and delusion, skating on a thin ice that inevitably cracks. In the second section, ’Dark Matter’, the invisible and unknowable are confronted directly as Armantrout’s experience with cancer marks these poems with a new austerity
Author: Rae Armantrout
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, versed
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2010-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0819570915
ISBN-13: 9780819570918
Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing. The poems in the first section, Versed, play with vice and versa, the perversity of human consciousness. They flirt with error and delusion, skating on a thin ice that inevitably cracks: "Metaphor forms / a crust / beneath which / the crevasse of each experience." Dark Matter, the second section, alludes to more than the unseen substance thought to make up the majority of mass in the un
