"Versed"
by Rae Armantrout
The American Poetry Review
July / August 2006

Rae Armantrout:

Rae Armantrout's most recent books are Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004), The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001), and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 2001). Her poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1993), American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition (Wesleyan, 2002), The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006), and The Best American Poetry 1998, 2001, 2002, and 2004. A new book, Next Life, is forthcoming from Wesleyan in 2007. Armantrout is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego.

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