The Well-Versed Rae Armantrout

Congratulations to good friend Rae Armantrout, whose book Versed has been chosen for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. As Glenn Campbell said when Charlie Pride won the Country Music Association Award, "it's about damn time."

You can find the book here.

And over there you can find the book A Wild Salience, featuring a wide-ranging set of explorations of Rae's work over the years, including my own brief take, "Extremities Made to Seem Precedence.