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Rae Armantrout has always taken pleasure in uncertainties and conundrums, the tricky nuances of language and feeling. In Conjure that pleasure is matched by dread; fascination meets fear as the poet considers the emergence of new life (twin granddaughters) into an increasingly toxic world: the Amazon smolders, children are caged or die crossing rivers and oceans, and weddings make convenient targets for drone strikes. These poems explore the restless border between self and non-self and ask us to look with new eyes at what we're doing.CAREDress like you care!Eat like you care!Care like you care!You don't thinkapples just grow on trees,do you? *A fish taps a clamagainst a bony knobof coralto crack its shell -which demonstrates intelligenceyes, butis the fishpleased with itself? *Alone in your crib,you form syllables.
