Poetry. "Hard edge.... [She] uses words with laser precision to explore facets which a lesser intelligence would never notice. Her sense of the essential is unfailing"--Ron Silliman. "A.'s phrasing and sculptured concision give her poems an exceptional formal coherence. Her ear shapes solid landscapes.... More typically she prefers an elusive humor, layered with parody and occasionally populated by cartoon characters in various stages of panic. The offhandedness of her manner is belied by the complex emotional charge she gets from apparently banal materials"--Geoffrey O'Brien, Voice Literary Supplement. "Armantrout's poems ride the fence of the Language School movement. PRECEDENCE features poems of wit and humor not typical of the movement"--John Stickney, The Columbus Dispatch.

Author City: San Diego, CA USA

Rae Armantrout is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of ten books of poetry.

Reviews and Other Links
author page @ Electronic Poetry Center
[text + audio]: interview by Christopher Lydon @ Radio Open Source
author page @ PennSound