“Top Ten: Rae Armantrout,” from Artforum (free registration required)
A list of some of Rae’s favorite things.
From Collected Prose (worldcat | buy):
- “Why Don’t Women Do Language-Oriented Writing?”
Rae comments on the apparent marginalization of women in the Language poetry movement. - “Poetic Silence”
A lecture which examines poems that create “a kind of palpable stoppage.” - “Cheshire Poetics”
Rae’s statement of personal poetics. - “Cosmology and Me”
A brief exploration of one of Rae’s favorite creative resources: popular science and physics.
POETRY COLLECTIONS:
- Extremities (The Figures, 1978)
- The Invention of Hunger (Tuumba, 1979)
- Precedence (Burning Deck, 1985)
- Necromance (Sun and Moon Press, 1991)
- Couverture (in French translation) (1991, Les Cahiers de Royaumont, 1991)
- Made To Seem (Sun and Moon Press, 1995)
- writing the plot about sets (Chax, 1998)
- Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)
- The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001)
- Up to Speed (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)
- Next Life (Wesleyan University Press, 2007)
- Versed (Wesleyan University Press, 2009)
- Money Shot (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)
- Just Saying (Wesleyan University Press, 2013)
- Itself (Wesleyan University Press, 2015)
- Partly (Wesleyan University Press, 2016)