<P>The poems in Money Shot are forensic. Just as the money shot in porn is proof of the male orgasm, these poems explore questions of revelation and concealment. What is seen, what is hidden, and how do we know? Money Shot's investigation of these questions takes on a particular urgency because it occurs in the context of the suddenly revealed market manipulation and subsequent "great recession" of 2008–2009. In these poems, Rae Armantrout searches for new ways to organize information. What can be made manifest? What constitutes proof? Do we "know it when we see it"? Looking at sex, botany, cosmology, and death through the dark lens of "disaster capitalism," Armantrout finds evidence of betrayal, grounds for rebellion, moments of possibility, and even pleasure, in a time of sudden scarcity and relentless greed. This stunning follow-up to Versedwinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a finalist for the National Book Awardis a wonderfully stringent exploration of how deeply our experience of everyday life is embedded in capitalism.</P>

RAE ARMANTROUT is a professor of writing in the literature department at the University of California at San Diego, and the author of ten books of poetry.

Staging
Colony
The Given
Money Shot
Across
The Agent
Prayers
Sustained
Working Models
The Air
Service Record
Deviled
Measure
Homer
Fuel
The Gift
Dream Life
Spin
Bubble Wrap
Recording
Answer
Day
Eyes
Ground
Autobiography: Urn Burial
Second Person
Number
Warble
Division
Soft Money
Human
Garden
Advent
Chain Chain Chain
Following
Spooks
With
Outage
Border Perfection
Duration
Cancellation
Procedures
The Vesicle
Errands
Midnight
Paragraph
The Hang
Vest
Exact
The Deal
Concerning
Objection
Ends Meet
Over
Sway
Along
Hopscotch
This Is
Money Talks
Long Green
Win
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