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Entanglements by Rae Armantrout

toniclark's review

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3.0

I'm a big fan of Rae Armantrout and love the way she uses physics in her poetry. I was fortunate enough to hear her read some of the poems from Entanglements recently at a writers conference, and that was a treat. Armantrout's poems are extremely compressed and require some work on the part of the reader. I enjoy doing that work. That said, the poems in this little collection really strained my brain — and most are not among my favorites, though I intend to read all of them again, probably several times. My favorite of Armantrout's collections is Versed, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize.

kylefwill's review

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2.0

Come close.

The crowd is made of
little gods

and there is still
no heaven

—from "Close"

gagne's review

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fast-paced

3.5

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