Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Great Regulars: This year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize

for poetry is Rae Armantrout for her book, "Versed." The Pulitzer board called the collection, which also won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, "striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading."

Here's a poem from the book:

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from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry, Rae Armantrout

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