Home Federal
Rae Armantrout, “Home Federal” from Veil: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2001 by Rae Armantrout. Reprinted with the permission of Wesleyan University Press.
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Poet Rae Armantrout b. 1947
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD Language Poetry
Subjects Social Commentaries, Money & Economics
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Rae Armantrout, one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets, stands apart from other Language poets in her lyrical voice and her commitment to the interior and the domestic. Her short-lined poems are often concerned with dismantling conventions of memory, pop culture, science, and mothering, and these unsparing interrogations are often streaked with wit. “You can hold the various elements of my poems in . . .
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SUBJECT Social Commentaries, Money & Economics
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD Language Poetry
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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