Veil: New and Selected Poems

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Wesleyan University Press, Oct 23, 2001 - Poetry - 147 pages

First book of selected poems by this core member of the Language writing group.

Rae Armantrout, a core member of the Language writing movement, has long been known for the wit, emotion and punch of her social critique. Veil contains poems from five of Armantrout's previous books as well as a generous selection of new poems. Her work relies tenaciously on the intelligibility of language, her careful syntax bordering on plain speech and meticulously scored lines always questioning how linguistic subjects are formed. Armantrout is interested in questions of origin, and the psychology of perception; she is interested in who is speaking and how we know what we know. Fans will welcome the chance to become reacquainted with her witty and lyric meditations on erotic and family issues, and new readers will be captivated by her poems' immediate availability and freshness.

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About the author (2001)

Rae Armantrout has fifteen previous books include "Conjure," "Wobble," (finalist for a National Book Award), "Partly: New and Selected Poems," "Itself," "Just Saying," "Money Shot," and "Versed," which recieved a Pultizer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her latest, and eleventh book published by Wesleyan, was, "Finalists." Armantrout is Professor Emerita of Writing at the University of California at San Diego. She has been published in many anthologies, including, "The Oxford Book of American Poetry," and Scribner's "Best American Poetry,"and in such magazines as, "Harpers," "The New Yorker," "American Poetry Review," "Boston Review," "Chicago Review," and the "Los Angeles Times Book Review." She lives in Everett, Washington.

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