Versed

Rae Armantrout · 2009 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Short fragments of language poetry move between television, politics, physics and the speaker's own body, with the second half written after a cancer diagnosis. The poems enact the difficulty of saying a thing straight. A lyric collection that won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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