Money Shot
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The poems in Money Shot are forensic. Just as the money shot in porn is proof of the male orgasm, these poems explore questions of revelation and concealment. What is seen, what is hidden, and how do we know? Money Shot's investigation of these questions takes on a particular urgency because it occurs in the context of the suddenly revealed market manipulation and subsequent "great recession" of 2008–2009. In these poems, Rae Armantrout searches for new ways to organize information. What can be made manifest? What constitutes proof? Do we "know it when we see it"? Looking at sex, botany, cosmology, and death through the dark lens of "disaster capitalism," Armantrout finds evidence of betrayal, grounds for rebellion, moments of possibility, and even pleasure, in a time of sudden scarcity and relentless greed. This stunning follow-up to Versed—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award—is a wonderfully stringent exploration of how deeply our experience of everyday life is embedded in capitalism.
Rae Armantrout
RAE ARMANTROUT has published eighteen books of poetry including Versed, which received a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for a National Book Award; Finalists; Conjure; Wobble (finalist for a National Book Award); 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 many anthologies, including, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and Scribner's Best American Poetry, and in such magazines as, Harpers, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Scientific American, Chicago Review, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'd like to read "Versed" but this book was great. I got it from the Library and was reminded why I don't generally check poetry out from the library: I can't write my notes in the margins. Overall I really liked it but I need to get my hands on my own copy to fully absorb the work.
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Money Shot - Rae Armantrout
Staging
1
Everything will be made new.
The precision coupling
and uncoupling,
the studied
blocking
and folding
have already begun.
2
Stillness of gauzy curtains
and the sound
of distant vacuums.
Prolonged sigh
of traffic
and the downward
curve of fronds.
The spray
of all possible paths.
Define possible.
Colony
As if
the space around
each particle were filled
with countless
virtual particles.
And the Lord said,
"I am aware
of weighing options,
of dither,
but the moment of decision
has always remained obscure."
Which one of these
do you most closely resemble?
Green stucco bungalow,
four brown gargoyles
on its flat roof.
Beehive Diva;
Rehab Idol.
Semi-transparent,
each
stinging jelly
is a colony.
The Given
Given potassium enough
and time,
the bougainvillea explodes
into