What do "self" and "it" have in common? In Rae Armantrout's new
poems, there is no inert substance. Self and it (word and particle)
are ritual and rigmarole, song-and-dance and long distance call
into whatever dark matter might exist. How could a self not be
selfish? Armantrout accesses the strangeness of everyday occurrence
with wit, sensuality, and an eye alert to underlying trauma, as in
the poem "Price Points" where a man conducts an imaginary orchestra
but "gets no points for originality." In their investigations of
the cosmically mundane, Armantrout's poems use an extraordinary
microscopic lens - even when she's glancing backwards from the
outer reaches of space. An online reader's companion is available
at http://raearmantrout.site.wesleyan.edu.
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