Go Figure

by Rae Armantrout

Keen, pithy meditations on a world that continues to surprise us

The poems in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout's new book are concerned with "this ongoing attempt/ to catalog the world" in a time of escalating disasters. From the bird who "check-marks morning/once more//like someone who gets up/to make sure// the door is locked" to bat-faced orchids, raising petals like light sails as if about to take flight, these poems make...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819500798
• ISBN13: 9780819500793
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 120 Pages