Armantrout, Rae: Finalists

Wesleyan University Press, paperback Publication Date: March 8, 2022 Publisher Marketing: A double book by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout What will we call the last generation before the looming end times? With Finalists Rae Armantrout suggests one option. Brilliant and irascible, playful and intense, Armantrout nails the current moment's debris fields and super computers, its sizzling malaise and confusion, with an exemplary immensity of heart and a boundless capacity for humor. The poems in this book find (and create) beauty in the midst of the ongoing crisis. CONTRASTWhat's to likeif not contrast?Shadows beneaththe model's sharpcheekbones, her ampleyet precise lips.Clean lines separatingbountyfrom its opposite.This is notwhat I wantto want.These eyeson the hypotheticaldistance.