By Rae Armantrout
The poems in cash Shot are forensic. simply because the cash shot in porn is evidence of the male orgasm, those poems discover questions of revelation and concealment. what's obvious, what's hidden, and the way will we understand? funds Shot’s research of those questions takes on a selected urgency since it happens within the context of the unexpectedly published industry manipulation and next “great recession” of 2008–2009. In those poems, Rae Armantrout searches for brand spanking new how you can arrange details. What will be made happen? What constitutes facts? will we “know it once we see it”? intercourse, botany, cosmology, and dying in the course of the darkish lens of “disaster capitalism,” Armantrout unearths proof of betrayal, grounds for uprising, moments of chance, or even excitement, in a time of surprising shortage and constant greed. This wonderful follow-up to Versed—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the nationwide publication Critics Circle Award, and a finalist for the nationwide e-book Award—is a perfectly stringent exploration of ways deeply our event of daily life is embedded in capitalism.
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