Book: Next Life 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 most important and articulate authors. These poems push against the limit of knowledge, that event-horizon, and into the echoes and phantasms beyond, calling us to look toward the "next life" and find it where we can.
Details of Book: Next Life Book: Next Life
Author: Rae Armantrout
ISBN: 081956821X
ISBN-13: 9780819568212
, 978-0819568212
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2007/08/13
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Number of Pages: 78
Language: English