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Source: Poetry (January 2011).
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 . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, Language & Linguistics
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD Language Poetry
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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