Conjure (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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- Synopsis
- 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.CAREDress like you care!Eat like you care!Care like you care!You don't thinkapples just grow on trees,do you? *A fish taps a clamagainst a bony knobof coralto crack its shell –which demonstrates intelligenceyes, butis the fishpleased with itself? *Alone in your crib,you form syllables.Are you happy when oneis like another?Add yourselfto yourself.Now you have someone
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 104 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780819579379
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780819579973
- Publisher:
- Wesleyan University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/20/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Wesleyan University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.