{"product_id":"up-to-speed-rae-armantrout-9780819566980","title":"Up to Speed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorrosive new poems from a poet whose work challenges expectations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRae Armantrout's most recent collection of poems focuses on the phenomenon of time, both as lived experience at the start of the 21st century and as a stubborn mystery confronting physicists and philosophers. The poems in this book are polyphonic: they juxtapose the discourses of science and religion, Hollywood and the occasional psychotic stranger. The title poem, which appears in Best American Poetry 2002, leads off with a \"sphinx\" asking \"Does a road \/ run its whole length \/ at once? \/ Does a creature \/ curve to meet \/ itself?\" Armantrout's work, with its careful syntax bordering on plain speech and meticulously scored short lines, is always struggling with the problem of consciousness, its blindspots and double-binds. The poems whirl like shifting and scattered pieces of the present moment. They attempt to \"make sense\" of our lives while acknowledging the depth of our self-deception and deception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rae Armantrout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819566985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819566980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 5.98w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/22\/2003 pg. 54","brand":"Rae Armantrout","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452532605183,"sku":"9780819566980","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ad434db0-69be-40ff-9df9-088d9c5aafd5.jpg?v=1761928986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/up-to-speed-rae-armantrout-9780819566980","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}