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Rae Armantrout

January 31, 2023

Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies. Armantrout currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego, where she is Professor of Poetry and Poetics. On March 11, 2010, Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book of poetry Versed published by the Wesleyan University Press, which had also been nominated for the National Book Award.[1] The book later earned the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of numerous other awards for her poetry, including an award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.[2]

Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout in 2014
Born (1947-04-13) April 13, 1947 (age 75)
Vallejo, California
OccupationPoet
Awards2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship

Early life

Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California. An only child, she was raised among military communities on naval bases, predominantly in San Diego. In her autobiography True (1998), she describes herself as having endured an insular childhood, a sensitive child of working class, Methodist fundamentalist parents.[3] In 1965, whilst living in the Allied Gardens district with her parents, Armantrout attended San Diego State University, intending to major in anthropology. During her studies she transferred to English and American literature, later studying at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] At Berkeley, she studied with poet Denise Levertov and befriended Ron Silliman, who would become involved with the Language poets of late 1980s San Francisco. Armantrout graduated from Berkeley in 1970 and married Chuck Korkegian in 1971, whom she had dated since her first year of university.

Literary career

Armantrout published poetry in Caterpillar and from this point began to view herself as a poet. She took a master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and wrote Extremities (1978), her first book of poetry.[3]

Armantrout was a member of the original West Coast Language group. Although Language poetry can be seen as advocating a poetics of nonreferentiality, Armantrout's work, focusing as it often does on the local and the domestic, resists such definitions.[4] However, unlike most of the group, her work is firmly grounded in experience of the local and domestic worlds and she is widely regarded as the most lyrical of the Language Poets.[5]

Critic Stephanie Burt at the Boston Review commented: "William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson together taught Armantrout how to dismantle and reassemble the forms of stanzaic lyric— how to turn it inside out and backwards, how to embody large questions and apprehensions in the conjunctions of individual words, how to generate productive clashes from arrangements of small groups of phrases. From these techniques, Armantrout has become one of the most recognizable, and one of the best, poets of her generation".[6] As Burt noted, and as Armantrout herself acknowledges, her writing was significantly influenced by reading William Carlos Williams, whom she credits with developing her "sense of the line" and her understanding that "line breaks can create suspense and can destabilize meaning through delay." The basic unit of meaning in Armantrout's poetry is either the stanza or the section, and she writes both prose poetry and more traditional stanza-based poems. In a conversation with poet, novelist, and critic Ben Lerner for BOMB Magazine, Armantrout said that she is more likely to write a prose poem "when [she] hear[s] the voice of a conventional narrator in [her] head."[7]

Armantrout's poems have appeared in many anthologies, including In The American Tree (National Poetry Foundation), Language Poetries (New Directions), Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, From the Other Side of the Century (Sun & Moon), Out of Everywhere (Reality Street), American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition, (Wesleyan, 2002), The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford, UP, 2006) and The Best American Poetry of 1988, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2007.

Armantrout has twice received a Fund For Poetry Grant and was a California Arts Council Fellowship recipient in 1989. In 2007 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. She is currently one of ten poets working on a project entitled The Grand Piano: An Experiment In Collective Autobiography. Writing on the volume began in 1998 and the first volume (of a proposed ten) was published in November 2006, and thereafter in three-month intervals.

Wobble, published in November 2018, was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry.[8]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
  • Armantrout, Rae (1978). Extremities. The Figures.
  • — (1979). The invention of hunger. Tuumba.
  • — (1985). Precedence. Burning Deck.
  • 1991: Necromance (Sun and Moon Press)
  • 1991: Couverture (Les Cahiers de Royaumont) - a selection in French translation
  • 1995: Made To Seem (Sun and Moon Press)
  • 2001: Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press)
  • 2001: The Pretext (Green Integer)
  • 2004: Up to Speed (Wesleyan University Press)
  • 2007: Next Life (Wesleyan University Press)
  • 2009: Versed (Wesleyan University Press) - 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  • 2011: Money Shot (Wesleyan University Press)
  • 2013: Just Saying (Wesleyan University Press)
  • 2015: Itself (Wesleyan University Press)
  • 2016: Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2015 (Wesleyan University Press)
  • 2018: Wobble (Wesleyan University Press)
Chapbooks
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Before 2013 Armantrout, Rae (December 16, 2013). "Before". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 41. p. 68.
Fusion 2016 Armantrout, Rae (March 7, 2016). "Fusion". The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 4. pp. 42–43.
Making 2015 Armantrout, Rae (April 20, 2015). "Making". The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 9. p. 70.

Prose

Translations

  • Narrativ [English-German, Bilingual edition, translated by Uda Strätling and Martin Göritz] (Luxbooks, Wiesbaden, 2009; ISBN 978-3-939557-40-1)

References

  1. ^ "Faculty poet honored for new collection", Aricleant
  2. ^ "Rae Armantrout – 2008 - US & Canada Competition, Creative Arts - Poetry" June 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  3. ^ a b c Green Integer profile
  4. ^ "Rae Armantrout Papers at Stanford University". Sul.stanford.edu. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  5. ^ Author Page at Internationales Literatufestival Berlin Armantrout was a Guest of the ILB (Internationales Literatufestival Berlin / Germany) in 2005
  6. ^ "Where Every Eye's a Guard: Rae Armantrout's poetry of suspicion". Boston Review. April–May 2002.
  7. ^ Lerner, Ben. "Rae Armantrout". BOMB Magazine. Winter 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  8. ^ "The 2018 National Book Award finalists are in. Here's the full list". Vox. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  9. ^ "Rae Armantrout | Yu".
  10. ^ Tim Murphy. The poetic physics of life. Sphinx Reviews, 2020

Further reading

External links

  • Biography from the International Literature Festival Berlin
  • Rae Armantrout Papers at Stanford
  • The UCSD Register of Rae Armantrout Papers, 1954-2009
  • Rae Armantrout profile at the Academy of American Poets
  • Profile at Green Integer
  • "Cosmology and Me", essay by Armantrout at Jacket)
  • Interview with Armantrout (Audio), PBS NewsHour, April 19, 2010. Includes poems and transcript.
  • Interview in BOMB Magazine. Winter 2011
  • Armantrout resources at PENNSound
  • Armantrout interviewed on Bookworm at KCRW, February 26, 2009
  • Armantrout at the University of Chicago gives a talk on the lyric poem (March 2011).
  • "The (Pulitzer-Winning) Poet is a Quilter. The Poet is a Collector. The Poet is 62", at Women's voices for change April 14, 2010
  • Interview in Spanish magazine Jot Down, March 2012
  • On Poetry and Complexity - Conversation with Madhur Anand, Roald Hoffman, and Sarah Tolmie [1]

January 31, 2023
armantrout, born, april, 1947, american, poet, generally, associated, with, language, poets, published, books, poetry, also, been, featured, number, major, anthologies, armantrout, currently, teaches, university, california, diego, where, professor, poetry, po. Rae Armantrout born April 13 1947 is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies Armantrout currently teaches at the University of California San Diego where she is Professor of Poetry and Poetics On March 11 2010 Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book of poetry Versed published by the Wesleyan University Press which had also been nominated for the National Book Award 1 The book later earned the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry She is the recipient of numerous other awards for her poetry including an award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 2 Rae ArmantroutRae Armantrout in 2014Born 1947 04 13 April 13 1947 age 75 Vallejo CaliforniaOccupationPoetAwards2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship Contents 1 Early life 2 Literary career 3 Bibliography 3 1 Poetry 3 2 Prose 3 3 Translations 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksEarly life EditArmantrout was born in Vallejo California An only child she was raised among military communities on naval bases predominantly in San Diego In her autobiography True 1998 she describes herself as having endured an insular childhood a sensitive child of working class Methodist fundamentalist parents 3 In 1965 whilst living in the Allied Gardens district with her parents Armantrout attended San Diego State University intending to major in anthropology During her studies she transferred to English and American literature later studying at the University of California Berkeley 3 At Berkeley she studied with poet Denise Levertov and befriended Ron Silliman who would become involved with the Language poets of late 1980s San Francisco Armantrout graduated from Berkeley in 1970 and married Chuck Korkegian in 1971 whom she had dated since her first year of university Literary career EditArmantrout published poetry in Caterpillar and from this point began to view herself as a poet She took a master s degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University and wrote Extremities 1978 her first book of poetry 3 Armantrout was a member of the original West Coast Language group Although Language poetry can be seen as advocating a poetics of nonreferentiality Armantrout s work focusing as it often does on the local and the domestic resists such definitions 4 However unlike most of the group her work is firmly grounded in experience of the local and domestic worlds and she is widely regarded as the most lyrical of the Language Poets 5 Critic Stephanie Burt at the Boston Review commented William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson together taught Armantrout how to dismantle and reassemble the forms of stanzaic lyric how to turn it inside out and backwards how to embody large questions and apprehensions in the conjunctions of individual words how to generate productive clashes from arrangements of small groups of phrases From these techniques Armantrout has become one of the most recognizable and one of the best poets of her generation 6 As Burt noted and as Armantrout herself acknowledges her writing was significantly influenced by reading William Carlos Williams whom she credits with developing her sense of the line and her understanding that line breaks can create suspense and can destabilize meaning through delay The basic unit of meaning in Armantrout s poetry is either the stanza or the section and she writes both prose poetry and more traditional stanza based poems In a conversation with poet novelist and critic Ben Lerner for BOMB Magazine Armantrout said that she is more likely to write a prose poem when she hear s the voice of a conventional narrator in her head 7 Armantrout s poems have appeared in many anthologies including In The American Tree National Poetry Foundation Language Poetries New Directions Postmodern American Poetry A Norton Anthology From the Other Side of the Century Sun amp Moon Out of Everywhere Reality Street American Women Poets in the 21st Century Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition Wesleyan 2002 The Oxford Book of American Poetry Oxford UP 2006 and The Best American Poetry of 1988 2001 2002 2004 and 2007 Armantrout has twice received a Fund For Poetry Grant and was a California Arts Council Fellowship recipient in 1989 In 2007 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award She is currently one of ten poets working on a project entitled The Grand Piano An Experiment In Collective Autobiography Writing on the volume began in 1998 and the first volume of a proposed ten was published in November 2006 and thereafter in three month intervals Wobble published in November 2018 was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry 8 Bibliography EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items September 2017 Poetry Edit CollectionsArmantrout Rae 1978 Extremities The Figures 1979 The invention of hunger Tuumba 1985 Precedence Burning Deck 1991 Necromance Sun and Moon Press 1991 Couverture Les Cahiers de Royaumont a selection in French translation 1995 Made To Seem Sun and Moon Press 2001 Veil New and Selected Poems Wesleyan University Press 2001 The Pretext Green Integer 2004 Up to Speed Wesleyan University Press 2007 Next Life Wesleyan University Press 2009 Versed Wesleyan University Press 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2011 Money Shot Wesleyan University Press 2013 Just Saying Wesleyan University Press 2015 Itself Wesleyan University Press 2016 Partly New and Selected Poems 2001 2015 Wesleyan University Press 2018 Wobble Wesleyan University Press Chapbooks1998 writing the plot about sets Chax 2016 Currency Yale Union 9 2017 Entanglements Wesleyan University Press 10 ISBN 978 0 8195773 99List of poemsTitle Year First published Reprinted collectedBefore 2013 Armantrout Rae December 16 2013 Before The New Yorker Vol 89 no 41 p 68 Fusion 2016 Armantrout Rae March 7 2016 Fusion The New Yorker Vol 92 no 4 pp 42 43 Making 2015 Armantrout Rae April 20 2015 Making The New Yorker Vol 91 no 9 p 70 Prose Edit True Atelos 1998 memoir republished in Collected Prose The Grand Piano An Experiment In Collective Autobiography with Bob Perelman Barrett Watten Steve Benson Carla Harryman Tom Mandel Ron Silliman Kit Robinson Lyn Hejinian and Ted Pearson Mode A This Press 2007 Collected Prose Singing Horse Press 2007 ISBN 0 935162 37 2Translations Edit Narrativ English German Bilingual edition translated by Uda Stratling and Martin Goritz Luxbooks Wiesbaden 2009 ISBN 978 3 939557 40 1 References Edit Faculty poet honored for new collection Aricleant Rae Armantrout 2008 US amp Canada Competition Creative Arts Poetry Archived June 3 2013 at the Wayback Machine John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation a b c Green Integer profile Rae Armantrout Papers at Stanford University Sul stanford edu Retrieved August 19 2011 Author Page at Internationales Literatufestival Berlin Armantrout was a Guest of the ILB Internationales Literatufestival Berlin Germany in 2005 Where Every Eye s a Guard Rae Armantrout s poetry of suspicion Boston Review April May 2002 Lerner Ben Rae Armantrout BOMB Magazine Winter 2011 Retrieved July 26 2011 The 2018 National Book Award finalists are in Here s the full list Vox Retrieved October 11 2018 Rae Armantrout Yu Tim Murphy The poetic physics of life Sphinx Reviews 2020Further reading EditA Wild Salience the Writing of Rae Armantrout Burning Press 2000 ISBN 1 58711 025 3 featuring essays and poems on or inspired by her work including pieces by Robert Creeley Susan Wheeler Hank Lazer Bob Perelman Lydia Davis Lyn Hejinian Rachel Blau DuPlessis Ron Silliman Brenda Hillman Fanny Howe and others A Suite of Poetic Voices Interview with Manuel Brito Santa Brigada Spain Kadle Books 1994 External links EditBiography from the International Literature Festival Berlin Rae Armantrout Papers at Stanford The UCSD Register of Rae Armantrout Papers 1954 2009 Rae Armantrout profile at the Academy of American Poets Profile at Green Integer Cosmology and Me essay by Armantrout at Jacket Interview with Armantrout Audio PBS NewsHour April 19 2010 Includes poems and transcript Interview in BOMB Magazine Winter 2011 Armantrout resources at PENNSound Armantrout interviewed on Bookworm at KCRW February 26 2009 Armantrout at the University of Chicago gives a talk on the lyric poem March 2011 The Pulitzer Winning Poet is a Quilter The Poet is a Collector The Poet is 62 at Women s voices for change April 14 2010 Interview in Spanish magazine Jot Down March 2012 On Poetry and Complexity Conversation with Madhur Anand Roald Hoffman and Sarah Tolmie 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rae Armantrout amp oldid 1099842646, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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