Versed

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Versed  
Author(s) Rae Armantrout
Country  United States
Language English
Series Wesleyan Poetry Series
Genre(s) Poetry
Publisher Wesleyan University Press
Publication date February 2009
Pages 136
ISBN 978-0819568793
Dewey Decimal 811/.54 22[1]
LC Classification PS3551.R455 V47 2009[1]
Preceded by Next Life (2007)

Versed is a book of poetry written by Rae Armantrout and published by Wesleyan University Press in 2009 (see 2009 in poetry). It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Awards

As part of a lead-in to their awards announcement,[2] NBCC board member James Marcus called Versed a collection of "vigilant, often beautiful poems [that] seem to reset the reader’s mental instrumentation—what Armantrout calls the 'whirligig / of attention, / the figuring and / reconfiguring / of charges / among orbits / (obits) / that has taken forever.'"[3]

According to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Versed is a "book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading."[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Versed / Rae Armantrout". Online Catalog. Library of Congress. http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&ti=1,1&SEQ=20100413153958&CNT=25%20records%20per%20page&CMD=isbn%209780819568793&PID=GlZqXgwEZGhMa80E6j9MyvaupUQi&SID=1. Retrieved 2010-04-13. 
  2. ^ Marjorie Kehe (March 12, 2010). "Congratulations to NBCC award winners". Chapter & Verse blog. The Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2010/0312/Congratulations-to-NBCC-award-winners. Retrieved 2010-04-13. 
  3. ^ James Marcus (March 9, 2010). "30 Books in 30 Days: Versed, by Rae Armantrout". Critical Mass Blog. National Book Critics Circle. http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/30_books_in_30_days_versed_by_rae_armantrout/. Retrieved 2010-04-13. 
  4. ^ "The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Poetry". The Pulitzer Prizes. http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2010-Poetry. Retrieved 2010-04-13. 

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