Itself

What do self and it have in common? In Rae Armantrout s new poems, there is no inert substance. Self and it (word and particle) are ritual and rigmarole, song-and-dance and long distance call into whatever dark matter might exist. How could a self not be selfish? Armantrout accesses the strangeness [...]
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What do self and it have in common? In Rae Armantrout s new poems, there is no inert substance. Self and it (word and particle) are ritual and rigmarole, song-and-dance and long distance call into whatever dark matter might exist. How could a self not be selfish? Armantrout accesses the strangeness of everyday occurrence with wit, sensuality, and an eye alert to underlying trauma, as in the poem "Price Points" where a man conducts an imaginary orchestra but "gets no points for originality." In their investigations of the cosmically mundane, Armantrout s poems use an extraordinary microscopic lens even when she s glancing backwards from the outer reaches of space. An online reader s companion is available at http: //raearmantrout.site.wesleyan.edu."