Book chapter
on Rae Armantrout, “The Way” (2001)
The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems, p.177
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
03/29/2022
Abstract
What do you know and how do you know it? What is the difference between who you are, what you say, and the way you are feeling? How does meaning feel—and feeling mean? These are some of the questions underlying Rae Armantrout’s “The Way.” In fact, concerns about the way we know—our technologies of knowing—resurface throughout Armantrout’s work.
The poem’s mysteries and ambiguities begin with its title, which seems to promise something instructive: a manual, methodology, or map to some real or imaginary place, though the poem’s route toward meaning is anything but direct. The first line
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- on Rae Armantrout, “The Way” (2001)
- Creators
- Elizabeth Willis
- Contributors
- Al Filreis (Editor)Anna Strong Safford (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems, p.177
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/29/2022
- Academic Unit
- Creative Writing
- Record Identifier
- 9984399605602771
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