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Rae Armantrout

August 29, 2012

The ad for the American moment   says, “Make today famous.”   (That little nobody!)   Bury her under the foundation.   Rome did.   Have her wear that seasonal   affective collapse get up.   Keep an eye- in-the-sky on it

Rae ArmantroutRae Armantrout is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of several books of poetry, most recently Money Shot (2011) and Versed (2009), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Photo credit: AP Photo/Denis Poroy


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