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Email: rarmantrout@ucsd.edu
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Professor of Writing: Poetry and Poetics About-Arts Website: http://www.about-arts.com/literature/Rae Armantrout is a native Californian whose poems are masterful contradictions; according to Robert Creeley, her poems have "a quiet and enabling signature." He adds, "I don’t think there’s another poet writing who is so consummate in authority and yet so generous to her readers and company alike." She has taught writing at UCSD for almost two decades. Her poems are telegenically "regional," filled with bungalows, newscasters and swimming pools yet they ring with an immaterial clarity that quietly subsumes her readers and listeners in a radical and eerily funny vision. Rae Armantrout came up as a poet in the Bay Area, educated at UC Berkeley (AB, 1970), where she studied with Denise Levertov, and San Francisco State (MA, 1975). Subsequently, she was at the center of the first generation of Language Poets, the group in the US most often credited with introducing poetry to postmodernity. Since then Rae Armantrout has forged a growing international reputation--publishing eight remarkable books of poems, most recently Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004) and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 2001), as well as countless poems anthologized (Best American Poetry 2002, and Postmodern American Poetry, a Norton Anthology, 1994) and gathered in diverse journals such as Conjunctions, Partisan Review, and the LA Times. In 2000, A Wild Salience, a collection of critical writings on the work of Rae Armantrout, was published (Burning Deck). She has directed the New Writing Series at UCSD since 1989, and co-organized the Page Mother’s Conference in 1999. Update: Rae Armantrout recently published the poem "The Ether," in The New Yorker issue of May 22nd and had two poems - "Traveling Through the Dark," and "Articulation" in The Oxford Book of American Poetry (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2006), ed. David Lehman. |