There is much to be said
on the way vine leaves
accede
to the wishes
of the wind,
all aflutter,
then rebound
as if nothing
Rae Armantrout has published over eighteen books of poetry, including Versed (Wesleyan University Press, 2009), which received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for a National Book Award. Other books by Armantrout include Go Figure, Conjure, Wobble, Partly: New and Selected Poems, Itself, Just Saying, and Money Shot.Armantrout is Professor Emerita of Writing at the University of California at San Diego. She has been published in numerous literary anthologies, including The Oxford Book of American Poetry and Scribner’s Best American Poetry, and in magazines such asHarpers, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Scientific American, Chicago Review, and Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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