On Rae Armantrout's 'Just Saying'
Rae Armantrout’s 2013 book Just Saying, a phrase that calls into question the veracity of what we say, think, and feel to be the case, or a phrase used to offload the force of an insult, suggests a motif of our inability or refusal to render our systems of thinking and believing in convincing terms. To be sure, the poems are varied in their address, circling around domestic concerns, mortality, social codes, product placement, forms of transactions, and systems of belief.
Time is a flat circle
Ray Coyne
Philadelphia-based writer and organizer Ray Coyne reviews three poetry collections: So Tough by Jared Stanley, Go Figure by Rae Armantrout, and Upstage by Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers.
Philadelphia-based writer and organizer Ray Coyne reviews three poetry collections: So Tough by Jared Stanley, Go Figure by Rae Armantrout, and Upstage by Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers.
So Tough, Jared Stanley (Saturnalia, 2024)