Wobble

"In language lean, intimate, and purposeful, this latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning Armantrout shifts constantly between public and private, abstract and concrete, known and unknown, surprising and delighting us as she delivers a sense of what's possible and of new ways of seeing."—Library Journal Best of 2018: Poetry

"With carefully planned havoc, Rae Armantrout takes a page from the jesters of old."—Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews

"Armantrout probes the place of sincerity in a post-modern cultural landscape in this formally dexterous and conceptually daring collection. [Her] intelligence and keen insight are equally present in the work's humor and cultural commentary."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A collection of tight, chiseled poems that forces readers to consider how greed, excess and lack of critical thought have led to environmental destruction and a nation wobbling toward the edge of collapse."—Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post

"With enjambment and double meanings, crystal-sharp images to muse on lost time and to take the private public.—C. Diane Scharper"—Library Journal