Just Saying

Deft and deeply intelligent poems on the nature of language

In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted--only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the security state can come from anyplace. The problem of identity becomes acute. The poems in Just Saying may be imagined as chimeras, creatures that appear when old distinctions break down and elements generally kept separate combine in new ways. Here Armantrout both worries (as a dog worries a bone) and celebrates the groundless fecundity of being and of language.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 02/19/2013
ISBN: 9780819572998
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.39w x 0.62d

Review Citations: Library Journal 12/01/2012 pg. 88
Publishers Weekly 12/24/2012
Booklist 02/01/2013 pg. 12