Rae Armantrout

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

— Rae Armantrout

As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my…

— Rae Armantrout

But here I hold your dream in my poem.

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We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

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Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in…

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“an undiscovered tumor squats on her kidney.”

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“I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension.”

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Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.

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“When I dreamed about flying, it was as a skill I needed to regain. ”

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The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.

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“As a child, I was abandoned in a story made of trees. Here’s the small gasp of this clearing come “upon” “again”

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“Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.”

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“Ends Meet 1 Could be time is practice, balance, the action executed in the mind before and after. Where does mind end?…

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“Simple Complex systems can arise from simple rules. It's not that we want to survive, it's that we've been drugged and made…

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We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.

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“Now light sits in the chairs”

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“Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas.”

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Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the…

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