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Finalists: The Poems (and Metaphysics) of Rae Armantrout

Mar 16, 2022
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Rae Armantrout
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout discusses her collection 'Finalists' and its philosophical themes of consciousness, cybernetics, and psychoanalysis. They also explore the revision process, influences from philosophers and poets, and the damage of post-modernism.
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Introductions and Discussion on Overlapping Domains
01:41 • 2min
3
Exploring Language Poetry and its Motivations
03:16 • 27min
4
The Revision Process and Intuition in Poetry
30:42 • 24min
5
Influences from Philosophers and Poets, and Recent Readings on Object Oriented Ontology
54:15 • 3min
6
The Damage of Post-Modernism and Unexpected Weaponization
57:14 • 2min
7
Reflections and Future Goals of a Writer
58:49 • 3min