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Rae Armantrout has always taken pleasure in uncertainties and conundrums, the tricky nuances of language and feeling. In Conjure that pleasure is matched by dread; fascination meets fear as the poet considers the emergence of new life (twin granddaughters) into an increasingly toxic world: the Amazon smolders, children are caged or die crossing rivers and oceans, and weddings make convenient targets for drone strikes. These poems explore the restless border between self and non-self and ask us to look with new eyes at what we're doing.
CARE. Dress like you care! Eat like you care! Care like you care! You don't thin apples just grow on trees, do you?* A fish taps a clamagainst a bony knob of coral to crack its shell —all which demonstrates intelligence yes, but is the fish pleased with itself? * Alone in your crib, you form syllables. Are you happy when one is like another?
CARE. Dress like you care! Eat like you care! Care like you care! You don't thin apples just grow on trees, do you?* A fish taps a clamagainst a bony knob of coral to crack its shell —all which demonstrates intelligence yes, but is the fish pleased with itself? * Alone in your crib, you form syllables. Are you happy when one is like another?
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Reviews
""In this volume, Armantrout addresses topics familiar from her earlier work: the nature of consciousness, aging, the looming ecological crisis, the vacuousness of much of what passes for public discourse.""
Simon Collings
""Conjure offers a magic of its own, with sometimes sly and always unforgettable juxtapositions of the minute and the exceptional, elevated by the intellect, flair, and confidence of a poet at the top of her game.""
Mandana Chaffa
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- SeriesWesleyan Poetry