Rae Armantrout
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Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet mainly associated with the Language poets.
She has written ten books of poetry and has also appeared in a number of major anthologies.
Armantrout is currently a Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego. Armantrout was given the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book of poetry Versed, which had previously been nominated for the National Book Award.
The book received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2010.
She has received several other accolades for her poetry, including an award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
Early life
Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California. She was raised on naval bases, mainly in San Diego, as an only child. She writes "True" (1998), a memoir of an insular childhood, a cynical child of a working class, and Methodist fundamentalist parents. Armantrout out of 1965, when she was living in the Allied Gardens district with her parents, decided to major in anthropology. She deferred to English and American literature during her undergraduate years, then moved to Berkeley, California. She worked at Berkeley with poet Denise Levertov and befriend Ron Silliman, who would later work with San Francisco's Language poets in the late 1980s. Armantrout graduated from Berkeley in 1970 and married Chuck Korkegian in 1971, who she had dated since her first year of university.
Literary career
Armantrout published poetry in Caterpillar, and from this point, she began to think of herself as a poet. She received a master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University and wrote Extremities (1978), her first book of poetry.
Armantrout was a founder of the original West Coast Language group. Although Language poetry can be seen as proponents of nonreferentiality, Armantrout's book, which often does not refer to the local and domestic, rejects such definitions. However, unlike the majority of the group, her work is firmly grounded in knowledge of the local and domestic cultures, and she is widely considered to be the most lyrical of the Language Poets.
"William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson partnered with Armantrout to dismantle and reassemble the various elements of stanzaic lyric, how to turn it inside out and backwards, how to convey large questions and apprehensions in the contexts of personal words, and how to create productive clashes from small groups of words," critic Stephanie Burt of the Boston Review said. Armantrout has become one of the most recognisable, as well as one of the best, poets of her generation, thanks to these methods. Burt said, and Armantrout herself admits that her writing was heavily influenced by William Carlos Williams' "sense of the line" and her recognition that "line breaks can give susstension and destabilize meaning by delay." Armantrout's poetry is based on either the stanza or the section, and she writes both prose poetry and more traditional stanza-based poems. Armantrout said that in a talk with writer, novelist, and analyst Ben Lerner for BOMB Magazine, she is more likely to write a prose poem "when [she] hears] the voice of a traditional narrator in [her] head."
Armantrout's poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, including In The American Tree (National Poetry Foundation), Language Poetries (New Directions), Out of Everywhere (Reality Street), In the 21st Century (Wesleyan, 2004), and The Best American Poetry of 1988 (Wesleyan, 2004), The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford, UP, 2005).
Armantrout has twice been awarded a Fund For Poetry Grant and served as a recipient of the California Arts Council Fellowship in 1989. The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award in 2007 gave her a grant. She is now one of ten poets collaborating on a book titled 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 then in three-month intervals.
Wobble, a writer who appeared in November 2018, was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry.