Safe Rooms by Armantrout, Rae
Safe Rooms by Armantrout, Rae

Safe Rooms

Poetry of the shifting architecture of a world we think we knowAcclaimed author Rae Armantrout's remarkable new...
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Author: Rae Armantrout
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Safe Rooms by Armantrout, Rae

Safe Rooms

$20.34
Safe Rooms by Armantrout, Rae

Safe Rooms

$20.34
Author: Rae Armantrout
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Poetry of the shifting architecture of a world we think we know

Acclaimed author Rae Armantrout's remarkable new collection Safe Rooms, explores the undercurrents of modern life with an unflinching eye on human nature, social malaise, and the unsettling ways in which we attempt to protect ourselves from a world that continually undermines our sense of safety. As the title poem says: "your thoughts /roar and echo//around you--originating/god knows where.// You try to plug your ears/but you are an ear/ that can't stop listening." Through poems that examine our darker impulses--our tendencies to self-destruct, to grapple with envy, and to navigate the intricate web of family dynamics--Armantrout captures the complex, often contradictory ways in which we search for meaning and connection. Her work holds a mirror to the forces shaping us, both intimate and vast, showing that the so-called "safe rooms" we construct are fragile, temporary shelters, not havens from the chaos that surrounds us.

[sample poem]

THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE

1

An atom "is localized
by an interaction"

the way you surprise yourself
by expressing an opinion

when asked,

one you didn't know you had
and may not hold

for long.


2

A subatomic particle is not
its mass or spin

the way a person
is not a body

and a poem is not
what it says.



Author: Rae Armantrout
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 08/11/2026
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780819502568

About the Author

RAE ARMANTROUT is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Professor Emerita of Writing at UC San Diego. Her collection Versed won both the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was also a finalist for the National Book Award.


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