Armantrout, Rae. Up to Spe Middleto...

Armantrout, Rae. Up to Spe Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Pres 2004 80 pp $1395

As I read Rae Armatrout's work Up to Speed, I was reminded of Percy Bysshe Shelley's claim that poets' language "is vitally metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension." I say this not to hint that Armantrout is by any means uncritically neo-Romantic. Rather, Armantrout in her metrical composition simultaneously extends and complicates the Romantic desire for communion and transcendence. As a great deal of as the various speakers